“I proposed to her and she said no. She said that she had planned to break up with me after the vacation.

Afterwards, I was the one trying to make her feel better. It took me a while to actually get hit by it.

I think it was when she left the apartment. All her stuff was gone, her computer where she was always working from home, everything. There was no sound, even the cat was confused. The following months were the hardest of my life.”