Hanging out with an ex while you’re in a relationship is a bad idea. Friendship with an ex (especially a close one) is difficult and wrong because it makes your new partner uncomfortable and gives you or your ex hope and anxiety (depending on who left who). If you left your ex, you feel guilty, […]
This is a question I get all the time. Many dumpees want to know why their ex unfriended them but didn’t block them. They think and hope that unfriending without blocking means that their ex still has feelings for them and that their ex may be using them as a backup plan. What unfriending but
Living with your ex is a bad idea because you and your ex constantly remind each other that you failed as partners and that you don’t feel good around each other. Your presences alone evoke unpleasant feelings and make you go through the dumpee and the dumper stages. The dumper feels a strong need to
Exes often drink, party, and engage in self-destructive behaviors after the breakup. They feel a strong sense of relief and a need to express their relief, so they act on their post-breakup emotions and distract themselves in ways that aren’t always the healthiest for them. Some dumpers don’t do anything differently whereas others make new
When an ex swipes right on you, your ex does this for two possible reasons. Your ex either does it accidentally (very unlikely) or half-jokingly to show that he or she discovered your profile and that it’d be fun to match as ex-partners. Matching with you on Tinder, Bumble, and other dating apps shows that
Showing your ex you don’t care anymore is easier than you may think. You don’t need to text, call, or tell your ex in person that you’re over him or her and that you’re finally happy and with someone else. Telling your ex how happy you are verbally or non-verbally is completely unnecessary and counterproductive.
Does your ex seem unaffected by the breakup and you don’t know why? It might surprise you that most exes are unaffected by the breakup. They’d been thinking about breaking up for so long that they wanted to break up more than anything. They couldn’t wait to deliver the bad news to their soon-to-be exes
When someone ghosts you, your initial feeling is perplexion. You don’t know what you did or didn’t do that made you get ghosted. You don’t know if you said something you shouldn’t have, if you weren’t interesting or attractive enough, or if the ghoster found someone better, new, or different to spend time with. Because
Boyfriends and ex-boyfriends sometimes feel guilty and avoid their (ex)partners. They have a fear of confrontation and don’t know how to deal with difficult emotions, so they avoid their partners or ex-partners and focus on feeling good. By prioritizing their positive emotions, they ignore the bad ones and by doing so avoid fixing the issues
Did you ever want to prove your ex wrong and make your ex regret dumping you and/or being with someone else? I know I did. I wanted my ex to see I learned from the breakup and that I could make her happier than any other person. I wanted her to know I was emotionally
If you had an argument with your boyfriend and you want to know if he will come back after the silent treatment, you need to ask yourself who’s giving the silent treatment to who and why? Are you giving him the silent treatment because he keeps reaching out and confusing you or did he lose
Some dumpees wonder if it’s better to be mysterious after a breakup than it is to post on social media and let their ex see and hear what’s going on with them. They want to know whether they should stay in their ex’s life or disappear altogether. Although every breakup is different, the truth is