"I - know how this goes. Talk if you want, don't if you don't."
(and if you go, if you go and leave me down here on my own)
Claudia sighs. "I won't tell you it ever stops hurting, but you do... reach a place where you can cope."
(then I'll wait for you)
You cope, and people think you're okay, but even if you're so extraordinarily lucky as to get the person you lost back, it doesn't stop hurting.