Previously, we talked about why a woman breaks up so suddenly, so this time, we’ll talk about guys breaking up out of nowhere and leaving you confused and hurt. We’ll show you that guys and women break up suddenly for the same reasons.
Unfortunately, most breakups can be hard to foresee. Due to personal feelings, it can be hard to tell if your partner is dealing with stress or if he’s falling out of love, thinking about ways to end the relationship.
Oftentimes, it’s a little bit of both. Guys get stressed because of work or something unrelated to the relationship and fail to communicate their feelings properly. They hold their stress inside or project it onto their partner and get into an argument. The argument tells them their partner can’t help them deal with stress and that they’re better off alone or with someone who understands them and cares about their problems and feelings.
This causes them to detach and leads to a sudden breakup. Dumpers typically don’t verbally express their detachment and loss of interest. They pretend everything’s fine until they’ve had enough and decide to leave. The only hints they give while they’re detaching are their depleted energy levels, lack of intimacy and bonding, and (hot and) cold behavior.
Non-verbally, they indicate that something’s changed and that they can’t or don’t want to change their perception of the relationship and bond with their partner. They just want to focus on non-relationshp matters (friends, family, and distractions) and leave their relationship up to fate.
Needless to say, fate doesn’t fix their relationship. It can’t because relationships require a lot of effort and constant maintenance. When they drop the tools required for maintaining their relationship, it’s only a matter of time before their relationship deteriorates even further and becomes unfixable.
That’s when they focus only on the negative aspects of the relationship and plan their way out of the relationship. It doesn’t take them long to initiate their plan and break up with their partner.
Maybe you didn’t notice any signs of detachment in your ex, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t any. You probably just weren’t paying attention. You must have brushed off your ex’s different or strange behavior because you thought he was just going through something difficult.
I don’t know your relationship problems and how you reacted to them, but I do know that people are extremely bad at hiding emotions and commitment. Especially when they know they’ve done something wrong and feel guilty, pressured, or scared.
For instance, cheaters tend to lose interest in their partner and often seem busy or not in the mood. They struggle to bond with two people at once, so they appear hot and cold, emotionally drained, distant, and confused. When confronted, they say everything’s fine and assure their partner that he or she is imagining things.
When people think their relationship isn’t working, they basically stop putting their best foot forward to save their time and enegy. They distance themselves from their partner as doing so helps them protect themselves from their ex’s discontent, judgment, and expectations. Physical and emotional distance lets them focus only on things and people who add value to their lives and make them feel good.
Hence, the breakup seldom happens suddenly. It may appear sudden to dumpees who are too close to their partner to see what’s happening to their partner, but the reality is that dumpers think things through. They make a premeditated decision to abandon the relationship they invested in for months or years.
The ones who break up suddenly usually aren’t emotionally ready for a relationship. They haven’t yet processed the end of the previous relationship (or some other problem) and don’t see the point in staying in a relationship. They want to focus on themselves instead, so they leave very quickly and confuse their invested ex.
Long-term relationship breakups, on the other hand, tend not to end suddenly. Sometimes dumpers wake up and break up with their partner while they’re still in bed, lying next to their partner, but that doesn’t mean they made their decision on the spot. Most dumpers pondered about it for a week or longer and kept looking for an opportunity to leave.
When they found it and feared their ex’s response the least, they initiated the breakup and felt relieved.
It’s no secret that some dumpers delay breaking up for as long as they can. They keep cool until something triggers their repressed feelings and pushes them over the edge. The last argument, issue, or negative feeling is the final straw as it makes them disconnect from their ex and crave an independent life.
When they dump their ex, they completely stop caring about their ex’s feelings. Many dumpers are okay with hurting their ex and revealing their worst characteristics. They don’t care how their ex feels because they just want space and time to do their own things.
Their built-up frustrations and immense need to self-prioritize make them act like completely different people. They make them look mean, rude, and cold—as if they’re interested only in themselves. This confuses dumpees and makes them think their ex’s perception of them changed shortly after the breakup.
The truth, though is that it changed a long time ago. The dumper just didn’t show it because he or she still had some fight left in him or her.
I know the breakup took you by surprise, but spontaneous breakups are very rare. People get broken up with on the spot when they cheat, lie, manipulate, or steal from their partner. Such breakups can be hard to predict unless you know your partner won’t tolerate certain behaviors.
So if your ex broke up with you out of nowhere and you want to know why he broke up with you so suddenly, know that he probably thought about breaking up with you for a while. He just didn’t tell you what bothered him, how he felt, and that he was thinking of leaving. He didn’t want you to know these things probably due to the fear of seeing you react strongly/emotionally.
That would have made him feel guilty, anxious, or scared.
He chose to hide his thoughts and emotions instead and ended things without talking to you first. He didn’t need your opinion because he’d already made up his mind.
In today’s post, we talk about why your ex broke up with you so suddenly and why he didn’t share his problems with you and try to fix them.
Why did he break up with me so suddenly?
If you were in a long-term relationship with this person, you can be certain that he didn’t just wake up one day and decide he’d be happier on his own. Your ex developed this belief over the course of weeks or months, depending on the length of the relationship and his mentality and experiences. He must have kept negative thoughts and feelings to himself for so long that he considered the relationship a hindrance and the breakup a path toward happiness.
To you, it seemed sudden, but to your ex, it seemed way too long. He felt unhappy and stuck in the relationship and told himself he needed to break free from it. When he finally did, he felt a weight lifted off his shoulders and felt free. He wondered why he waited so long to initiate a breakup.
If the relationship was good when he left, he probably had something or someone else to replace you with. He probably started talking and bonding with some other person and developed a crush. The new person helped him detach quicker and encouraged him to leave you for her.
But if the relationship wasn’t working for a while, then he probably left to focus on himself. It wasn’t a sudden breakup but a breakup caused by long-term unhappiness. He left you without a warning and made you wonder why he lost feelings and left so suddenly.
The truth is that most about-to-be-dumpers aren’t honest about their feelings and commitment to the relationship. They don’t tell their partner “I’m 90% done with the relationship and will leave if you don’t change and do what I want.” They expect their partner to understand their thoughts and feelings and make the necessary changes alone.
Communication isn’t their strong suit, so they expect improvements and changes rather than work on them together with their partner.
Oftentimes, it’s not a matter of changing. Dumpers simply aren’t happy with their partner and don’t want to work on the relationship any longer. They’re done working together due to emotional overwhelm, detachment, and resentment—and don’t want to spend any more energy and time on a person who doesn’t understand them and fulfill their relationship expectations.
Because they’ve given up, they want space from their partner and time to focus on more important people and things. People and things that meet their needs and expectations. Anyone and anything is better than their ex.
So if you can’t stop thinking about why he broke up with you so suddenly, it’s because he detached and stopped caring about his promises and commitments. As soon as he lost feelings and the determination to work on the relationship, he knew he’d be happier without you and that he needed to leave as soon as possible.
Eventually, he gathered the courage and found an opportunity to leave, so he took it. He had no regrets as the breakup empowered him and let him do his own things.
Many dumpees tell me they didn’t see the breakup coming. They say they had plans with their ex and that things were going great until their ex decided to leave. Some even kissed their ex or slept with him or her moments before breaking up. That doesn’t mean the relationship was perfect, but that dumpers hid their thoughts, feelings, and problems until the end.
They didn’t want their ex to know about them and try to change their mind. Dumpees don’t understand that dumpers stay in a relationship until something causes them to lose faith in the relationship and triggers a breakup.
This can be an argument, stress, depression, or a new emotional or sexual prospect.
I’m not saying all breakups can be justified as some dumpees get dumped without an explanation even though their relationship is going strong. They get along with their partner just fine, don’t argue, have kids, and seem to be on the right track. They don’t understand why their ex would leave a relationship like that and look for happiness elsewhere.
In such cases, there’s almost always someone else involved. Someone who makes them feel validated and important. Another person causes them to detach over a week or two and makes them leave for greener pastures.
However, there are also dumpees who got cheated on and dumped in the past but were still surprised when the breakup happened. Despite experiencing multiple breakups and lots of problems, they had high hopes for their ex and got blindsided by their ex.
They couldn’t understand how their ex could leave them and make them feel so miserable. Such dumpees made the mistake of judging the quality and longevity of the relationship solely from their own emotional perspective. They failed to consider their ex’s viewpoint and ask themselves how likely it was for their ex to be tempted to cheat or leave again.
That’s why they got hurt again and thought their ex left them abruptly.
I don’t know your relationship, so I can only assume that your relationship was great and that the breakup occurred out of nowhere. That would imply that your ex found a replacement for you (detached from you and attached to someone else). That’s the only reasonable explanation for his quick loss of feelings, interest, and commitment.
Having said that, here’s why he broke up with you so suddenly.
What to do when he breaks up with you suddenly?
Whether he breaks up suddenly or you see the breakup coming from miles away, it doesn’t change the fact that he lost feelings and stopped valuing you. He thinks the relationship prevented him from being happy and that he can be happier alone or with someone else.
Since your ex is convinced he or she must break up with you, you should let him. Open the door for him and show him you accept the breakup. He needs to see that you won’t beg for his attention and struggle to love yourself.
Even if the breakup hurts you a lot and triggers anxiety you thought you weren’t capable of feeling, you must avoid guilt-tripping your ex and let your ex be free and independent. You must do this to show him you love yourself more than him and that you have the strength to move on and enjoy your life.
In the short term, this won’t do much. It will make your ex respect you, but that’s about it. In the long run, however, it could make your ex curious, nostalgic, and even regretful. When he experiences issues he didn’t expect to experience, the guy could remember you, admire your strength, and crave your attention and validation. This depends on how you present yourself and how he copes with problems and stress.
When guys come back, it’s because they can’t find what they’re looking for. They realize the grass isn’t greener on the other side and that they must return to secure their happiness with their ex. They essentially stop seeing their ex as a problem and start seeing her as a solution to their problems and pain.
So no matter how badly you want your ex to come back, remember that your ex has to respect you and need you to come back. He can respect you if you let him go and need you by getting in trouble and realizing he left a good woman. When that happens, your ex will understand what went wrong and what he must do to fix it.
He’ll know that time is ticking and that he must reinitiate contact and win your trust and love back.
Therefore, don’t do anything your ex doesn’t want you to do. Don’t write him love letters and explain why you did what you did. Now that the breakup happened, your ex doesn’t care about your sob story and feelings. He’s done listening and sympathizing with you and wants to experience life in his own way.
While he’s doing that, he won’t be receptive to anything you say or do. He’ll stay convinced the breakup needed to happen and that he’s happier. You must respect his thoughts, feelings, and decisions and give him the space he’s asked for. Don’t be his friend. Just walk away with your head held high. It will make him like you and think about you more than if you make it difficult for him to separate from you.
The guy needs to live life on his terms for a while. He needs to experience the good and bad parts of the breakup and see if he’s made the right decision. If he has, you may not hear from him for a while. He’ll likely stay busy and see no reason to converse with you. But if he has a hard time dealing with issues and loving himself, he could contact you when he needs you the most.
No matter what he feels and does, stay in no contact and let him come to you. Remind yourself that it’s his turn to make an effort and that you mustn’t throw yourself at his feet. Not only would that be unattractive, but it’d also make it harder for you to learn your worth and improve your self-esteem.
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