How to move past a bad, mentally abusing relationship?

[silly girl]

I broke up with my ex over 6 months ago. We dated a year and were each others’ first everything. The last 3 months of our relationship, we spent almost the whole time fighting, mostly over things he didn’t want me doing that I wanted to do or things that he didn’t want us to go out and do together. I moved about an hour away 6 months after we started dating for my first year of college. At that point, he got controlling about me doing things. He wouldn’t let me go to parties and he didn’t want me making friends with guys. Most of my dorm was guys and I tend to relate better to guys than girls anyways. He would get mad when I would go hang out with the guys on my floor or when they would be in my room until late in the night because none of us ever slept. I honestly had no attraction to any of the guys in my dorm and only had feelings towards my boyfriend. However, he was really insecure about that because I said that certain actors were attractive and seemed like really awesome men. He would constantly say actresses were hot and sexy and things like that and would occasionally say that about girls he actually knew. I never really cared about him saying that kind of thing because I was secure enough in our relationship to know that he was mine and wouldn’t cheat.

So, I finally broke up with him because I was tired of being controlled by him. I’ve liked quite a few guys since I broke up with him and I’m very ready to move on, but I still feel like I’m being held back by him because of how much I did what he wanted instead of what I wanted. I think some guys have been interested in me, one even asking for my email, but never doing anything further than that. How do I move on past this bad relationship that was somewhat mentally abusing to me?