Why do breakups become like a life or death situation sometimes?

In a break up we usually lose someone we care deeply about and someone who's been our friend for a very long time. We naturally grow attached to them and over time change our routines to match theirs. A break up means another change, but sometimes a very sudden and unexpected one, which makes us feel that our world as we know it has come to an end.

Because it feels like you're losing the most important thing in your life. When I went through my last breakup, I didn't know what to do because she was so important to me that I literally felt as though I could not continue without her. Obviously I'm still here and did not die, but the emotions become very real and painful very quickly.

It is because losing a relationship makes you feel like you are grieving and that a part of you has died or is missing.

Sometimes people think the only way to end the pain of a breakup is o end their life. However, there are other ways to get over a break up.

I had gone through the same and its because the person you love become your life but you never know about the life or the situation. So after a breakup the only thing you can think is your EX, nothing else.. and its like that you cannot live without that person we start thinking that death is the only solution. But its not...because even after death we cannot get that person back in our life or we are not sure that how that person will react...?

Because sometimes you are afraid of the future. Sometimes, breaking up you feel like you can't go on.

Because when they love the person so much... It's hard to forget that person in your life who cared and loved you for who you are.

Breakups are hard to get through, when you fall in love that person is your entire world, there someone your never forget. Just remember all the good times you had together.

It's when you give all of you to the relationship that makes you think you're whole world revolve around it. That's why when you experience a breakup, your created world collapses with it. You ask your self if you want to live, and build a new world again or not, just end it and be succumbed by emotions.

not all relationships are healthy. when we leave an unhealthy relationship they feel a lot worse then they should. just remember to smile and keep your head up

Breakups can be difficult to overcome, but in time our hearts will mend and the pain will not be so difficult to overcome.

I believe that breakups can become life or death situations sometimes, because you become so emotionally invested in one person, they are your best friend, lover, and a huge part of your life, then everything is taken away from you. Many people cannot form friendships after they have broken things off, and this is crushing to lose a person who is so close to them.

I think that is because you love someone so much that when they leave they take a part of you with them. And when you love someone so much it is really hard to let them go.

Ever since we were born,the first thing we learned is that our survival(whole life) depends on our parents-their love and care. That was our first connection with another being when we all became emotionally dependent because that's how we learned to live. Now we have to learn how to live unattached and independent and that's why those feelings of being abandoned and unsafe emerge.

Breakups become like a life or death situation because we invest so much of our time and effort in them.

When these happen, we are bound to feel nervous and sad, because we are giving up on something we have once cherished alot. From my personal experience though, the process is tough, but thereafter we grow and learn to handle relationships better because we learn from our failures in the previous relationship. It's tough to break up, but we will make it through! (:

People who fall in love tend to end up depending on that person and making them their everything and when that happens, because the person has made that person all that matters, when they are gone it feels like they have lost everything. It's important to know how to love someone and still be independent!

people are hungry for love and when they find someone from whom their hunger is get satisfied of course no one likes to be empty stomach

Being so connected to someone feels like the life support plug has been pulled on you, you find yourself not sure what to do, or when to do it as you don't have your loved one to bounce ideas off.

I think because we become so attached emotional as well as physically to someone we become dependent on this person. When we break up we forget who we once were before we met them. So we lose ourselves and don't know how to deal with life without them. They were normally there to get you through something but instead its them your the reason your feeling like this. The one person you thought would be there is gone and its hard to accept life on your own. Sadly just takes time to realize that we can still have a life without them and to become the person you once were. After a period of time though it does become easier and you find yourself a stronger person then you once were.