It's hard but you have to find things to do, so that the healing can take place.

As they say, "Time heals all wounds," - but it's what you do with that time that counts.

Write an r/UnsentLetters

If the weather allows, go for walks or run

Try to volunteer or help others. I have found if you do something for others, it helps a lot with taking your mind off things.

Be kind to yourself.

Btw, there is such a thing as broken heart syndrome. It's called takotsubo cardiomyopathy Basically stress as severe as losing a lifelong partner affects the structure, and therefore the ability, of the heart.

Takot subu are octopus traps that resemble the pot-like shape of the stricken heart — and that's not all that's unusual about broken-heart syndrome. It occurs almost exclusively in women.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a weakening of the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, usually as the result of severe emotional or physical stress, such as a sudden illness, the loss of a loved one, a serious accident, or a natural disaster such as an earthquake.