It's not the same, but somehow it sounded familiar. So I said from what I was told that sounded about right, it's suppose to be torturing and it will be a slow recovery. From what I heard he'd eventually shift from waking up in the middle of the night, thinking about what happened, to suddenly remembering a heart breaking dream during the day. And I was told that eventually, even if he cannot completely get over it, the ache will be managable. He'd stop trying to figure out all the details and accept it like a fact. Slowly but surely, it will get better.

I suppose though it might break in different ways, it all hurts the same.