Missing somebody is really a form of addiction, isn’t it. I know this is not a new idea, but I was thinking about it today. That person whom you miss had occupied a place in your brain that is accociated with good and pleasant things and when you don’t get your “fix” from that person you go through withdrawl. There is more to it than than that, but there has to be something chemically invloved because missing is a full-bodied experience. I’ve never trully been addicted to anything, but I have gone through enough human withdrawl that I think there has to be some relation between missing your person and emptying your stash. Look at how people turn to drugs when they are trying to cope with a missing person! We humans don’t like to have empty spots. There’s something programmed in us to desire to be filled. It’s like we’ve all suffered from some kind of deprivation when we were younger.