Some call this period the dark night of the soul.

It certainly feels that way.

If you look into the spiritual rationale - and I always love a rationale, though the irony of that doesn’t escape me - when you meet someone who mirrors you, when the soul connection runs that deep, it is apparently natural that eventually the incandescence will trigger old trauma and lead to separation.

But this period, otherwise known as the dark night of the soul, is soul-crushing.