Your most impactful friend fall out/break up

i want to hear yall experiences since im recently going through my first break up and it was a 3 year relationship.

my boyfriend broke up with me a month ago and i couldn’t bring myself to go back to just being friends so i cut it off with him for good. I felt incredibly betrayed by him but honestly i feel like this break up has taught me self worth.I hated myself almost my entire life. i used to feel like i didn’t mean anything unless someone loved me but when i cut it off with him i felt like i chose myself. Now I realize that i have to love myself and in turn i give myself a better life, i don’t need to depend on others validation and it feels so liberating yet ironic a break up made me realize that lol