I had a friend who broke up with his girlfriend of 7 years and I remember him calling me (he never calls me on a typical day) and telling me that his girlfriend left him for another girl. Apparently his girlfriend had a different sexual orientation and he was sadder that he didn’t realize this in the 7 years that they were together.
The call ended up to be almost 4 hours long with me listening to him recount their entire relationship together. I held space for him to vent and personally had to fight off my own urges to offer him solutions (which is probably not what he needed to hear).
We spent a lot of time together hanging out over the next few weeks and eventually he got over the breakup. I guess the moral of the story is to just be there for your friends and don’t be too quick to offer any advice because what might work for you may not work for them.