Heartbreak?

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Have you ever experienced "heartbreak"? What does this mean to you? I asked my Aspie ex this question and he wouldn't answer. I'm just curious if it was perhaps a foreign concept to him.

To me it's an actual physical pain in the chest, accompanied by sadness and mourning and intense hurt.

Yes, I think you described it well. Sometimes it can come over you in a wave of sadness and longing can hit you in waves -- a powerful chemical reaction -- that overwhelms you both physically and emotionally. I'm going through this at the moment, it's not very much fun.

Yes, and it was mostly the same. I just had trouble eating and sleeping for awhile, too. I think for some people talking about emotional hurt is just incredibly difficult, so they may choose not to do so (or not know how at all).

suicidal depression, extreme distractability, intense anger, grief, desperation... in short, it hurts like hell!

depression, lots of crying, headaches, problems sleeping, anger, lashing out with others, withdrawing from others, upset stomach causing me not to be able to eat much & making me go tot the bathroom,

Feels kinda like putting your brain through a blender while stabbing yourself in the heart repeatedly huddled up in a ball with every nerve ending feeling like it is on fire.

It's horrible for everyone then. I was wondering if Aspies experienced emotion attachment at the same intensity...

A good description I heard from a speaker was that Asperger's was like life times ten. Meaning that its like having every single experience relative to your ability to cope with it being ten times the norm. Might not fit for every single thing but it its a good description. For heartbreak? I heard from a dating coach that all aspies are practically heartbroken aspies. I don't think we are really equipped to deal with it too.