Dina - I hate to hear it but it is good to know that I don't suffer completely alone! It doesn't help for you to date someone else really. It is good sometimes to get my mind of the ex but I am constantly comparing the two since they are so different from one another. It is one extreme to another with them. I wish I could find someone that is just in the middle! I too have been having IBS attacks here lately. I was stable for so long and then BOOM, the stress hits me. It is weird how you don't feel that you are that stressed but your body is telling you that you are! I also tried the 'friend' thing with my ex and that didn't work. We were close like friends and I could tell him just about anything but we were too attracted to one another to ever truely be friends. That is why he ended things with me. He said as long as he was around me he wasn't allowing himself to seek out other women. It is just eating at me to know if there is somone else in his life now! I guess there are different phases to breaking up with someone and I am in the 'miss you' phase right now. I am also afraid to lose him forever. As each day goes by I know that his feelings could be less and less for me. I don't want to let those feelings die but I don't want to keep trying something that isn't going to work! URGH! Relationships!