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Did you completely move on from each other (dating other people, not really thinking about the other, not ever thinking you'd get back together) or did you kind of stay in touch and know in the back of your mind that when/if things changed, you'd make your way back to each other? (Want to hear regardless of whether it worked out in the end or not!)
I know it'll be different for different people, just interested in hearing stories, seeing trends.
Not looking for philosophies on whether exes should get back together or not, see above for question being posed.
Did you completely move on from each other (dating other people, not really thinking about the other, not ever thinking you'd get back together) or did you kind of stay in touch and know in the back of your mind that when/if things changed, you'd make your way back to each other? (Want to hear regardless of whether it worked out in the end or not!)
I know it'll be different for different people, just interested in hearing stories, seeing trends.
Not looking for philosophies on whether exes should get back together or not, see above for question being posed.
I think in some cases, people make the mistake of getting back together with their ex, and usually it's out of sheer desperation.
1. Break up.
2. Start dating again.
3. Sick of the dating options and just hate the dating process.
4. Go back to ex only due to your familiarity with them, and not because of the reasons your broke up with him/her.
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There is a reason they are called “Exes.”
Yep, ex's are ex's...for a reason. I know a few women that said once they are broken up, that's it...they are done and there's NO getting back together.
I believe the question was directed at those who DID get back together.
We did. We maintained some, not much but some, contact because we had kids.
We both saw others (none seriously) in the meantime (over 6 months with a legal separation)
I'm the one that left and thought it was going to be permanent...turns out he didn't.
We ended up staying together 'forever after' until he died.
Did you completely move on from each other (dating other people, not really thinking about the other, not ever thinking you'd get back together) or did you kind of stay in touch and know in the back of your mind that when/if things changed, you'd make your way back to each other? (Want to hear regardless of whether it worked out in the end or not!)
I know it'll be different for different people, just interested in hearing stories, seeing trends.
Not looking for philosophies on whether exes should get back together or not, see above for question being posed.
I had a boyfriend who I dated for about a minute back when we were quite young. (Ours was not a serious relationship by any stretch of the imagination, mind.) He and I remained in touch over the years and, nearly twenty years after our initial meeting, fell for one another as "grownups" and decided to try to make a go of it.
Three years after reconnecting, distance with a lack of even a vague timeline of when we would "close the gap", religious and personal differences , lack of good communication, and clinical depression (his) put an end to our renewed relationship.
I have few regrets about reconnecting with him other than the fact that I hurt him by ending things. It's never easy to hurt a decent human being.
Went with my girl two years and broke up. Dated several women in the months that followed, but longed for her back again.
Got back together, married her seven years later.
We've been married thirty-three years now.
But to answer the OP, see bolded.
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