An acquaintance broke up with his ex 3 years ago and still refers to her as his fiancee. He couldn't get along with her father and decided to give her up, to the protests of everyone else ('cept her father). After that, he carried on dating but somehow he has derailed. He reminded me of the girl in the Taiwanese movie The Personals, who went through one painful blind date after another when her lover left her.

I really didn't know what to say. Though it works for me, asking him to make himself happy by buying the latest Be@rbrick seems too flippant a piece of advice.