Om Swami
Why does a break-up hurt so much, and how do I stop seeing my ex as the perfect person I lost?
Two separate people, each with missing pieces
The other person was flawed to begin with and always a separate individual. It was not two pieces forming one puzzle but two independent puzzles with missing pieces.
It's not that two pieces came together and formed a puzzle. It's that there were two independent puzzles, each with missing pieces.