Hello DaisySunshine, I read your posts and I want to send you warm feelings and sincere wishes that you will be healed emotionally, energetically and spiritually as soon as possible
I dont have a helpful answer for you, since our situation is quite different, Im old and I was many years on this SC path, I dont have any hopes or dreams about it anymore.
In my case, and this apply to my case only,
I realized that the only way for me to stop all this, to stop my longing, yearning, hoping, wondering and at the end to stop my love - was to destroy the person who loved him the most- and that person was me.
I had to destroy myself- metaphorically speaking, I had to let him know that the person who used to loved him does not exist anymore.
And ever since I start telling him (via voice messages) that my love for him fades and finally faded all away - my longing stopped,
pulling sensation in chest stopped, that feeling or urgency "i have to see him now" stopped, everything I felt for him just stopped - and so far, I just feel indifferent towards him and the whole situation.
I never though I would feel indifferent towards him, but after 18 years total since he entered my life- I do.
And I hope that I feel this indifferent towards him for the rest of my life.
DaisySunshine and others I would suggest to watch these two videos, you wont find anything new in them, but are helpful in a way - first one is about reflection silence back to them- instead of sending love to them just find your own private way of reflecting their silence back to them
and the second one is about -stop thinking and start feeling - just try to quiet your mind, dont think "when, how, why, what if , what hes doing now etc" and just try to feel the connection- that is for the people who still want to keep connection alive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2K3nuntZA0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoKH3CGwSz8