good answers.
i guess ill just play the just a friend 'role'
for alittle longer
I'll just give you a little fair warning:
It took me years to recover from my ex. And I wouldn't exactly say I've "recovered" - there are still times I start down a memory and look back up to realize several minutes have passed without me realizing it.
I'm not exactly sure what the relationship was between this guy and his girlfriend... but I was very committed and very serious about mine. The only reason I hadn't proposed to her was because it would be kind of silly - since I had no means to support her and I at the time (no matter how much I wanted to and how fancy the dreams were).
She started messing around on me at one point in time - and my dad passed away in the midst of everything (my last living parent). In my mind - I was losing almost everything I had... and the future I had envisioned was evaporating before my eyes.
A bit more extreme than what he's probably gone through - but it took months before I could look at a female without suspecting her of being a devious creature plotting to get away with whatever scandal she could. It's only been recently (around three years later) that I've actually started to have much of an interest in dating and developing intimacy.
So it may take him a while, and he may go through some pretty intense stages of grieving (again - depending upon him and what this girl meant to him).