"can we still be friends"? can anyone ever truly be friends again after break up? you give a person your everything. in turn, they learn everything about you, every insignificant fact. but suddenly they disappear. they aren't urs anymore and you are somehow supposed to talk to them. there will be awkward pauses where the "I <3 U" used to go and the colorful conversation will become dull and painful. and even if years pass, you still won't talk normally because talking to them at all will remind you why you fell in love with them in the first place .