Son’s break up.

Ok. I know I won’t regret this as there’s some good souls on here, and yes, I’m fully aware that there are way, way bigger things going on atm, but my 23 year old middle son has just been dumped by his girlfriend of 3 years.

They’d lived together for a year in Nottingham before he moved to Manchester for post grad studies. Anyway, both he and the girl are now with there families since lockdown, before which everything appeared to be going swimmingly.

It’s really hard tbh to watch him suffering - any of us who’ve been through it can remember how tough it can be. if it wasn’t for this bloody lockdown, at least he could meet up with friends/ drown his sorrows for a month or so and all the other things you do to get over a break up, I could even have taken him down St Andrews (he’s not a footie fan) to show him that there’s 20,000+ people in Brum who live with disappointment week in, week out, but apart from carefully chosen words of reassurance, I’m feeling pretty hopeless as a dad as to how to play it.

As I say, it’s trivial and everyday, but I’m almost as cut up as he is, watching him go through it in this feckin Groundhog Day world we’re living in.

TIA for any advice.