"Time heals all wounds." True or false? How long does it take?

[Mike 03]

There seems to be a theme in some posts here tonight about relationships: starting them, prolonguing them, ending them.

Have you ever been in a relationship, no matter how long or short, that no matter how much time passed you were unable to "get over."

They say time heals all wounds, but is that always true?

How long can it take? Five years? Ten years? Fifteen? Twenty?

What say you?

[ogneopasno]

1. I hold grudges for a long, long time. But having said that, I don't let those grudges cause me pain.

I've had relationships end painfully, but for me it was true -- eventually, you just put that box of pain down and walk on.

This post is what you get out of me PUI.

[Sky Masterson]

2. "all wounds" ? Not completely.

A little scarring can remain.

[BlueJazz]

14. Ah...Yes...my fellow DU'er.....so True...so True...

[blogslut]

3. There's a bit in the film "Men in Black"

The Tommy Lee Jones character is caught spying on his lost love by the Will Smith character. When Jay (Smith) discovers that Kay (Jones) pines for the woman, he says:

"You know what they say. It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

In response, Kay looks at him and says:

"Try it.

Tommy Lees Jones' delivery of that line gets me every time.

[Pool Hall Ace]

4. I definitely believe that time wounds all heels

but I'm not so sure about time heals all wounds.

[Swede]

5. Scar tissue is forever.

It may not hurt,but you know it's there.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. yes...

:hug:

[sammythecat]

8. Yes.

You just get used to it.

[Mira]

7. I think time wounds all heels. Karma in action.

[kedrys]

9. Time heals nothing

It merely rearranges our memory.

I hate to quote from a Gary Numan song, but when I first heard it during a difficult time in my life, I thought he nailed it.

[skygazer]

10. It doesn't heal them

You just get used to it.

[SPKrazy]

11. no, you just get used to the pain

and then you can cope

wounds don't heal

[av8rdave]

12. Time heals some wounds

There are some things that stay with you forever, no matter what.

Other things, time can heal.

Yet other things, only you can decide whether or not you will heal, and when.

[Robeson]

13. It's a sweet saying, but empirically unproven....

...there's just to much out there - pro and con - to make a definitive statement on that one.

[flvegan]

15. I've never had a relationship that I wasn't able to get over in short time.

Many are still friends of mine. Hell, I work with one of them.

But then, I'm heartless.

[BarenakedLady]

16. It gets easier over time

But some things never completely heal over.

[DarkTirade]

17. Emotional wounds are just like any other.

Sometimes it'll need a few sutures. And a bad enough wound will leave a scar.