How to Deal With Your Ex-Girlfriend's Death

"I was like looking through our text messages from the last time we talked, and it made me sad about the terms that we were on when he passed," she writes. "When you're an ex-girlfriend, you know, you have all of those really happy things, but you also have just some really sad stuff." The decision to cut off ties with him was actually part of your relationship, CNN's John Sutter says. And then in light of his death, it might feel, to some extent, like you abandon him.