Some people think that it is flattering when an ex tries to come back into your life. You think they must still love me! They realize they were wrong in letting me go!? Surely, they have seen the error of their ways and want to be in my life again!!??
Being a wise 39 years old..I think it is mainly due to the sixth sense that the opposite sex seems to have, that knows you are finally trying to move on.
Nine times out of 10, they are the ones that tell you to move on! And, after being prodded to move on and see other people, you begrudgingly seek a new relationship, and then...you know how it works. It never fails, once you start seeing someone else, the ex always comes sniffing back around.
There have been a few times that I was all too happy to try things again with a guy, and break off a possible promising new relationship.
But it was only to realize that leopards don't usually change their spots. Or, more fittingly, people don't tend to change unless they really put their heart and soul into it.
My #1 guilty relapse relationship is with ex-manfriend. We've been broken up for real for like 2 years..and I can't count the number of times I tried to make things work with this guy, or how many potentially great guys that I dated that I tossed aside to pursue what was so obviously (in retrospect) broken.
Enter in 3 months ago when I finally realized after a turn of events that I probably really did need to shut the door on exmanfriend. I realized that in fact, I was probably holding onto something that was no longer there.
And as with most relationships gone wrong...in time I realized...despite the feelings, we just were not meant to be!
He told me to delete his number, and I blogged that if it were only that easy to forget someone. But it worked out pretty well for me. I stopped thinking about us in the future. I finally shut the door on what could have been, and I started to see things for what they were.
While he kept contacting me sporadically..I came to realize, that if he felt 1/10th about me the way I felt about him, we would be together. No questions asked, and I finally started to realize that I am the one who deserves more!
So, you know, I have been spending time now and then with a guy that I have been casually seeing, friends...but who knows where it's going, and I'm enjoying our time together..It may not be an official boyfriend, but it is just enough to get the ex radar going.
And today I was out shopping with my Mom and I got the text.
From exmanfriend.
Who told me to delete his number 3 months ago.
Simply saying Hi...and asking how I've been..And for the first time my initial reaction wasn't a pang of the heart..or wondering if this meant we could rekindle our "romance"...I was kind of ticked off because he was the one that told me to delete his number. HE thought that it would make it easy to forget about me.
But I'm grateful for what happened, because I finally realized that I in fact deserve more.
I am tired of being with guys who realize what they lost after they lose me. I want the guy who realizes what he has while he has me...and never lets me go.
3 comments:
I hope you texted him back to say "F-off".
He was probably bored or lonely or just being a bit of a man dick.
Look forwards not backwards my friend. You know where this will go... x
It sounds like he doesn't have his shit together. That and also he's probably bored playing with himself all the time.
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