Step 1- Forgive yourself of all guilt, shame and regrets, for it was not your fault. You did nothing but stay true.
Step 2- Milk the pain for a lesson to be learned, for situations which break ones heart can always be taken a lesson from, no matter how small.
Step 3- Learn to separate the intimate love from the platonic. Above all love learn to love yourself as much as the human race as a whole. In this, discernment between infatuation and desire will be compartmentalized in order to distinguish soulful love from lonesome yearning and impulsive nose dives into pools of momentary euphoric rushes of attention, moments of self...