Partner to be or not to be?!

The other day I was talking to a friend of mine who has recently broke up with a boyfriend. She has been quite sad and telling me she still has feeling for his boyfriend. She wondered if this feeling grows, she would have a difficult time to brake away from past.

I give her the following advice. I told her:
It is quite difficult to forget someone you loved. In my humble opinion, the only way that someone may be able to say a complete good bye to his/her past is to close that chapter of her life. I don’t mean killing yourself or anything close to it! Not at all. I mean you have to come to a peace of mind with yourself in regard of your past. On the other hand, you must take away the pain before you start your life again.
You have to see why you broke up with your partner. Was it for a good reason? Did s/he break one of the factors that you praised? Does s/he care for you as much as you care for her/him? Did you both draw the same conclusion not being able to stay together? Were you able to compromise and you didn’t? Have you been fighting for a long? Does your original reason worth fighting for?
If you could answer all the questions stated above, we may come to a peace with ourselves. Consequently, we close this chapter of our life. No need to further thinking of it. We meet people all along our life, we may fall in love, however, our soul mates may be somewhere else standing waiting with an open arm for us!!