Breaking up with your first love, how did you cope with it?

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Sitting, thinking back to that magical first time i fell in love. I could still remember the butterflies in my stomach, the sparkle in my eyes, and the stupid smile on my face. First boyfriend, first love. How even 10 minutes apart from him could seem like an eternity? How the simple act of holding hands could make me feel like the most special person on the planet? I was 18 yrs old, he was 17. My parents wouldn't allow me to have a boyfriend that time. Because i loved him, i disobeyed my parents. It was like a fairytale story, "him and me against the world"...hehehe. My parents hated him and his family.(they had a very bad reputation in our city) Now, fast-forward a few weeks, a month, or perhaps even years ahead, and what happened?? 4 years of being together.. We broke up and went our separate ways, most likely never to see each other again. Nothing prepared me for the pain, the tears and the emptiness that i felt that time. The smiles vanished from my face, the sparkled left my eyes. What made it worst was i couldn't be more open to my parents about it. Eventhough they've accepted our relationship, still they're not very okay about it. My friends consoled me. I remember how i spent hours crying alone 'til i fall to sleep, wishing that it was just a dream. And i recall that it took time, and many dates later, to make me realize that life wasn't over and the best was yet to come. It was myy first pain, my first heartache....how did i cope with it? I promised myself that the pain would go away and that I would love again. That all the pain, the tears and the crying are just the smallest portion of LOVE, that the biggest portion is yet to come. And i took some comfort in the knowledge that heartache, after all, is only a temporary condition. And you? how did you cope with your first heartache?