that feeling in your gut

it's odd... you start dating someone, everything is going great. maybe too great. then something happens. something outside to throw a wrench in things. after all is said and done, you are now just friends.
bottom line, it's a break up. but where is the feeling in my gut? where is the since of loss and the anger from being dumped? where is the heart ache and the confusion? where is the hurt? where is that feeling in my gut that i have gotten every other time?
its not there.
its not there because deep down inside this is the best thing that could of ever happened. too fast, too soon, and then the lose of the "honeymoon" stage does a lot to a relationship. especially one as young as what we had. she is, and always will be, one of my very best of friends. if things go back to the way they were, then it's what is meant to happen. if not, then i maintain a friendship which i will value for a long time.
things will work out as they should. i will find my notch, she will find hers. no regrets. i am not sure if our notches will fit together as they once did but at least i know they will be close.