If you’ve spent any time perusing our articles, you’ve read some of my articles on here . If not, you probably know that I have some odd hobbies, like cycling and watching Doctor Who.
Yes. Yes. I know I’m a nerd. I’m okay with that.
It’s no secret that Chris likes Buffy and Tennis.
We’ve all got our thing.
But Doctor Who doesn’t take any training unless you decide to marathon all 50 years of it at once… then you might need a little training in the art of couch surfing.
Now, here’s an interesting question. Have any of you ever taken up “Road Cycling?”
Well, road cycling takes a lot more effort than I originally expected. I jumped in expecting it to be just like riding a bike… easy.
It wasn’t.
Firstly, to ride with the group I had to have headlights, taillights, a helmet, and I can’t tell you how many times someone told me to get clip in pedals. It became a VERY expensive hobby very quickly.
After I made more than a few purchases, I still jumped in WAY too fast and WAY too soon. I went out with some friends who were WAY more experienced than I was. I dropped back and fell behind. My chest felt like my lungs were on fire and there was a stitch in my ribs that made it feel like someone was stabbing me.
It took months and months of training to even remotely keep up with the group. Luckily I have very patient friends. I was SO proud of my progress.
Then winter came, and my brakes on my bike were going out. I laid off my training for a bit till I could get my brakes fixed. Let’s just say that it took a lot longer than expected. So, I was out of the game for a while.
Needless to say, after I finally got my brakes checked, I got back out there and… disappointed myself. I could not keep up with the rest of the group at all heck I couldn’t even keep up with myself when I started the first time.
Keeping up a regular training program is important if you want to make progress. Letting it slide can leave you having to start all over again like I did with the cycling.
Your mind needs training just line any other part of your body. In order to keep it up to par. And with the proper attention, it has the power to do unimaginable things.
However, right now, you are functioning with faulty brakes so to speak, distracted by something that makes it feel like your life is almost passing you by. This happens when you cannot maintain control over your thoughts. Trust me, I have been in those shoes more times than I can count.
You spend every second of the day analyzing and over-analyzing your ex’s actions. I am guessing that you have probably been mulling it over since your relationship hit the rocks. That’s understandable, and it it isn’t just you. We all find ourselves feeling that way at some point, often when we are laying in our beds at night staring at the ceiling and just imagining every possibility.
This obsessive thinking is part of the process everyone goes through after a breakup. It has a tendency to go on and on if you don’t figure out some way to get off that not-so-merry-go- round. The only way to do this is to come up with some semblance of understanding for the situation and at the same time, maybe a little peace.
So, let’s explore the possibilities. And be sure to remember that just because it’s possible doesn’t mean it’s true. But exploring all of the possibilities outside of the horrible ones that your mind is throwing at you can help see some reason and maybe let go of some of the more ludicrous ideas.
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Your exboyfriend could have any number of reasons for avoiding you. Some of them make sense. Some of them will make absolutely no sense at all.
The idea here isn’t to figure it out and change his mind or try to fix it. The goal is to garner some understanding as to why so you can go back to living your life without stopping every five seconds to wonder,
“why me?”
The “Let’s Stay Friends” Quick Exit
Most of the time during the actual breakup the idea of spending your lives apart hits hard and heavy. And one of you, or both of you, suggests that you stay in each other’s life as a friend. That’s completely normal. Although, if you are the one that took the “friend” clause to be a promise to stay connected even though your relationship has come to an end, then we can assume that the breakup was tough on both of you. And he probably wanted out of an extremely uncomfortable situation that generally tends to get drawn out.
For most people, breakups aren’t meant to lead to long lasting friendships.
Yes, I know it hurts to even think about life without him at this point. And it hurts even more to think that he could even consider life without you.
You might find this situation familiar. Stick with me till the end. All is not lost.
He’s Not Feeling It Anymore
Friends grow apart. Chasms grow within families. And couples fall out of love.
None of these things happen on purpose.
They happen because we grow as people, a process that you cannot control.
Over time you grow into different people. He will no longer be the guy you met at the beginning and you have grown into someone new as well.
This one is something I struggled with personally.
I dated a guy last year for about 6 months. He was great on paper and supposedly he let me in. I suspect if we had never dated, we would have made great friends.
But the thing was, he never cared for me in any spectacular way. I think he wanted to at first, but he didn’t and I can be honest and say that my life wouldn’t be what it is now if things had gone differently with him.
Growth apart isn’t something you can change or take back. However, it is something you can choose the direction of.
Like I said before, though, stick with me till the end here. It’s not all bad news. Just be patient, we’ll get there.
He’s Seeing Someone Else
If he moved on from your relationship, then it is likely that he will want a clean break. That would explain why he’s giving you the cold shoulder.
In my case, the ex I was telling you about earlier was already talking to someone new when we split. And despite being a huge jerk to me when he and I split, I actually believe that he cared about her. That’s why I wasn’t completely ticked off when he cut me out of his life. I understood that he was doing one of two things.
Either he was trying to show her respect, in which case I was happy that she could bring that out in him. Or he was afraid I would tell her all of his shortcomings, which I’m sure she’ll discover on her own if he continues to be that person.
If this is your situation, then I understand your singular pain.
You know that suction-y thing that the dentist sticks in your after the whole scrub, scrape, rinse cycle?
Watching someone you care for be in a relationship with someone else and worse be happy with them, feels just like some horrible person is suctioning away pieces of your heart. It leaves you feeling empty and alone.
The upside here is that cutting you off is almost them doing you a favor. They saved you the agony. That is if you can avoid stalking either of them on social media.
There are ways to deal in this sort of situation too. We’ll cover that too.
Hurt Feelings
If you were the one to break things off, or maybe he changed his mind after he broke things off and you weren’t ready yet, then it’s possible his feelings are a little raw at the moment. There’s nothing like the sting of rejection to make you value a little distance between you and the person who supposedly rejected you.
Everyone has their own way of dealing with painful experiences. It is most common to put as much distance as they can between them and the source of the pain… that would be you, if you hadn’t guessed
When you accidentally touch something hot don’t you recoil from the pain?
I’m not saying you did anything to hurt him on purpose, but, as I am sure you are aware, men’s egos can be fragile.
If his feelings are hurt, there is one other reason he could be keeping you at a distance… to cause you pain. Only you can know if he’s the vindictive type. It’s more likely for someone to think of their own feelings before considering anyone else’s.
If this is the situation you are facing then just keep reading.
He Still Cares
Whether he broke up with you or you broke up with him, feelings don’t just disappear into thin air. But giving himself space to extinguish them, even a little, makes it easier to move forward with life. Since you found your way here to this site, I am guessing that you would rather he realize that you are everything he’s ever wanted and come running back to you. Am I right?
If you broke up with him, then it is likely that him pushing you away is his way of protecting him from reinvesting only for you to hurt him again. I talk to a lot of women who tell me, “I only broke up with him to teach him a lesson. Now I can’t get him to come back.”
I understand why people do this, but it doesn’t make any sense to me. The general thought process is understandable. I mean, when kids act up a parent takes their toy away for a period of time. It’s a way to teach them to value something while they have it. But relationships are not toys and you can’t just confiscate it and return it on a whim. These are someone else’s emotions you are dealing with and you cannot control how they react to them being treated like something to be played with.
You can take away a kid’s Gameboy after smarting off and he will learn not to talk back.
You can not take away your love and expect a man to learn to appreciate you more. He will only learn that your love is temporary. That’s how all of those emotional walls get built.
Love is not a bargaining chip. The sooner you learn that the sooner you improve your chances of getting him back.
Suffocation
If you’ve read some of our other articles, you are familiar with the term “gnatting.” Gnatting is basically hardcore pestering your ex to stay in contact or get back together. Basically, you smothered him trying to keep the connection you had alive and now he is creating as much space between you as possible to catch his breath.
I get it. Right now you feel like you are losing your grip on something that matters to you very much and your instincts are telling you to hold on for dear life. When you go out and have a few drinks with the girls, you inevitably end up leaving him voicemails and texts at 2 in the morning trying to remind him about the times you were happy together. Why?
Well, that is what is prevalent in your mind. Why shouldn’t it be on his?
You only broke up two days ago, but you have this intense feeling that he’s already wiped his memory of you.
It’s up to you to remind him! Right?
Wrong!
I don’t care what you’ve done so far… just stop. Stop trying to contact him. Don’t post the sappy lyrics from the song that was your song on social media to try and catch his attention. And for heaven’s sake, turn your phone off or give it to a trusted friend if you know you are going to be drinking!
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Alright, so far we have covered what he could be feeling and why he might need a little space. Let’s talk about what you CAN do… because right about now I’m sure you are feeling a little helpless.
Well, first things first, in regards to contacting him… QUIT IT!
This is not a game of tag. He didn’t poke you and run away screaming, “CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!”
He is putting distance between you and if you push to bridge the gap too soon, you will end up with a wall befitting China and possibly a moat… maybe even crocodiles.
If you want him to come running back to you, you want the least obstacles in the way as possible.
Right?
So, back off and let him do his own thing.
I have six words for you.
No Contact! No Contact! No Contact!
Okay so it’s two words repeated three times, but that’s how important it is.
The reason No Contact is so important isn’t what you would expect. I mean, yes it is partially that the time apart will make him miss what you had. But it is more so that it gives you time to change your focus from him to you.
Using the 21, 30, or 45 days that you are in No Contact to benefit you rather than jumping up and down begging for his attention and causing him to tuck tail and run is the ONLY way to make this work. Yes, there are a few other parts to it, but the main goal is to basically spot check your life for any areas that you’ve neglected and then work towards turning your life into one you would enjoy living even if he never came back.
A sad notion I know, but when he starts to wonder why you aren’t chasing him (and he definitely will. The ALL do.) He will take a look at the life you’ve built and wonder if maybe he made a huge mistake letting you go and an even bigger mistake by pushing you away.
This peaks his interest and causes him to dance around the perimeter of this new life you have built.
The best part?
It puts you in control over when and how you let him come back. That is unless you realize you deserve better, which is totally what happened to me. But I digress.
The Do’s and Don’t’s For Every Situation
DO maintain No Contact. If you haven’t started yet… here is where I would start “No Contact 2.0”
DO be friendly if you run into each other. (no I don’t mean the “I can’t believe I ran into you at your favorite coffee shop even though I’ve been sitting here for 6 hours every day for a week.” Type of run-ins.)
DO shift your focus. If he’s not feeling it, then you most like fell into a rut or a routine. At the beginning of relationships, we talk about dreams and goals for the future. Falling into a rut means you let those dreams and goals slide to the back burner. This is usually why so many people say that they don’t feel a “spark” anymore.
DO look at the person you were at the beginning of the relationship. If it was a long relationship, it’s possible that you two simply grew up and grew apart. Re-establishing goals and a life of your own should be enough to peak his interests.
DON’T give in to the temptation to try and fake a new life. If you want something that lasts from him, you have to build something that lasts for yourself.
DON’T try and broadcast the improvements you make. I assure you, he will find them. Everybody, and I mean everybody (even happily married people), looks up their exes to see how their life played out eventually. My ex of almost two years still checks my Snapchat almost weekly even though he has been with someone new almost that long. No one escapes the “what could have been,” even the jerks.
DON’T try to force a friendship to happen even if you promised to stay friends. Most people’s gut instinct is to continue being in each other’s life as if nothing ever happened. But something did happen and, if you don’t respect the boundaries of No Contact and this new friendship, you will lose him for good. The best course of action is to take some time and get through No Contact. If he asked where you disappeared to when you finally reach out, just tell him you were taking a little time to focus on what you wanted out of life. And maintain the emotional distance of a friend. When he’s ready, he’ll bridge the gap.
DON’T be the one to bring up the relationship one you reestablish contact. If he needed space, chance are that he’ll need time to ease into it too. Don’t rush things.
Charlotte
September 4, 2019 at 6:15 pm
Me and my ex of 4 years broke up 4 weeks ago,…I’ve contacted him nearly every day since and either ignores me or just says there’s no chance of us ever working!
We shared a place together, I moved back with my parents straight away and he is giving up our place to move back with his. It’s killing me knowing once he does that it’s the end! It seems like I’ve gone from being his whole life to like I’ve never existed and I just don’t understand. Should I just let him go or keep chasing him like I have been?
Lena
October 24, 2018 at 2:49 am
I broke up with him 2 weeks ago and have been in NC since then. The other day I had to go to the store where he works (looking super sexy) and I had to talk to him (I assume that a business contact doesn’t count as breaking NC). It was a short, polite, even friendly interaction but… he just couldn’t look at me. He either turned his back on me and talked to me that way, or he hid behind the counter. He didn’t even count the money when I paid. I think he felt really unconfortable, but I don’t know why, since I was being totally cool about the situation. I mean, I was merely buying beer, not making him talk about us. Any ideas on why he did that? Should I do 21 or 30 NC? I broke up with him and this was the first time, and it was such a stupid fight 🙁
Chris Seiter
October 24, 2018 at 3:16 am
Hi Lena…I think somewhere in that range of 21 to 30 days.
Jasmijn
March 12, 2018 at 7:03 am
It has been about a month since we broke up. We were living in the same house and we broke up because he didn’t know what he wanted anymore and felt that because of his depression he could not make me happy and also that he wasn’t as in love with me anymore.
He changed his mind 2 times, we had sex a few times but I stopped that before I moved out which was a week ago. I posted my story once before I don’t know if you remember…
The morning of the day before I left we had sex and talked. I wanted to ask one more time if he didn’t want to see what our relationship would be like if we lived apart (we were housemates already when we fell in love). He said no; felt pressured. So I said okay and everything was fine.
Then that night I went to say goodbye because I would not see him the next day when I would move out (he didn’t want to be there). He would not look at me or say goodbye. No hug (even though weeks before when we were already broken up he would hug me any chance he got…).
I still come around sometimes because one of my friends lives in that house as well. He knows I’m not there for him. My friend’s girlfriend was over from berlin and we get along great so I wanted to see them both!
I ran into him in the hallway as he was leaving and he again couldn’t look at me let alone say hi. I smiled and greeted him then walked into the kitchen but felt hurt that he was avoiding me.
Yesterday again. I was having pizza with friends and he even ordered with our mutual friend who lives there but while everyone was sitting with us eating pizza he went into his studyroom and ate there.
Is he so disgusted with me he can’t even eat in the same room? Is he angry? I just don’t understand. I am doing no contact and I would not start a conversation with him but everyone else is noticing his avoidence which makes it awkward…
We are going to run into each other there is no question about that… We have a lot of mutual friends and friends that live in the same house as him.
I’m not there for him but he keeps avoiding me ever since I moved out and before that we were on friendly terms…
What happened?
EBR Team Member: Amor
March 14, 2018 at 5:39 pm
He’s actually doing the right thing because you just broke up.. Being friendly right away either means you want to be fwb or you’re not hurting and just misses talking to your ex or you’re not respecting the hurt of your ex.
Kay
August 8, 2017 at 5:00 pm
So it’s been a month since my ex (24yo) dumped me (26yo) and until now he still runs away from me whenever we are about to cross paths. I’m still in no contact, and whenever we did occupy the same street for whatever reason, I’d always ignore him like he wasn’t around (listening to music with headphones tends to help me with that) but I’d always catch him making an about-face and walking away quickly in my peripheral vision. We don’t work together, and while we have mutual friends I never join outings or parties with them in case he would be there too. Basically our interactions (if you could call them that) are just on the street and I never acknowledge him.
I would have been hurt that he’d just run away at the sight of me weeks ago, nowadays I’m just confused about this behavior because it’s really consistent. After all, it’s been a while since the breakup. What are your thoughts on this?
Kay
August 9, 2017 at 3:52 pm
What do you think I should do then? My no contact period will be done in a few days. Should I stay in it a little longer, or text him on schedule? Or do something else?
EBR Team Member: Amor
August 10, 2017 at 4:05 pm
as long as you were active in improving yourself, and in posting, you should try to initiate after nc.
EBR Team Member: Amor
August 9, 2017 at 3:22 pm
it’s awkward for him to initiate contact.. either he thinks you haven’t moved on, or he’s just shy.
Kale
August 5, 2017 at 4:02 am
It’s a never-ending saga. I broke up with him nine months ago, after dating off and on for about seven months. Third parties got involved (guys who liked me and a female who wanted a green card from him) and added fuel to the fire. However, he’s basically been stalking me all of these months. Fake Facebook requests, prank calls, items left at my door, etc. He picked Valentine’s Day to block me on Facebook and still has me blocked. But February 15th he began making fake profiles and trying to friend me. On my birthday in July, he copied a guy friend’s profile and requested me. Then I rejected it, and he took two female friends out the night of my birthday and broadcasted it on Facebook.
Tonight, I saw him four times at a big event with 5,000 people spread over four levels. He was with a buddy and I was with a girlfriend. Each time he saw me loooong before I saw him, and he would avoid me. The last time, he saw me at the other end of a crowd, and walked the other direction and his buddy turned around when he noticed he was gone. He then rejoined the crowd as I walked by. He looked so hurt.
We both are single, although I’m fairly close to becoming official with another guy, if I want to. But I still miss my ex. We’ve not spoken since the break up- I only tried a few times. After I broke up with him he called mutual friends to tell them he was done with me! Ego bruise for him! I parted ways with all mutual friends in December. Last week, he was in his motorized parachute and flying behind my car as I went to the grocery store, flying above my house, and flew around the walking track as I walked. But when he approached the light in his truck and would have to be face to face with me, he turned the other direction. What gives
I have written a few fake profiles back as if they were him, but I last did this on June 19th, I feel bad because post-breakup, his looks have deteriorated. He has been drinking A TON and this guy who could never gain weight now has a beer gut. It does look like he’s been working out his arms and shoulders though, in the past few months. He heard I like big arms and shoulders. When we dated, he scoffed at why anyone would work out their upper body. His beer gut is getting bigger and his face has thinned out a lot. I don’t know what to do. Please help,
Kale
August 7, 2017 at 6:27 pm
Yes, I wrote back two of the fake profiles. I just said that I knew he was behind them, asked why he kept up all of his shenanigans, and that I wasn’t mad anymore, and just wanted us back to normal. I wrote them on April 5 and June 19.
EBR Team Member: Amor
August 9, 2017 at 2:54 pm
Ah ok. Decide if you want to slowly rebuild rapport with him or be with the new guy.
EBR Team Member: Amor
August 6, 2017 at 7:03 pm
I’m confused.. Did you mean you wrote back to his fake profiles?
Ann
June 28, 2017 at 10:23 pm
Hey Amor
Can I only just purchase the info for the private group?
EBR Team Member: Amor
June 30, 2017 at 11:06 am
Hi Ann,
Here’s the link for it :
Private Facebook Group
Mimi
April 30, 2017 at 5:22 am
Hi. He broke up with me in March ’17 after some months of fights and not agreeing on personal values like religion. He had been out of the city when the constant fights started. I did no contact for about 26 days and contacted him via emails asking him to drop off my stuff at a mutual friend so I could pick it up. He then decided he wanted to give me my stuff in person. We met and he said that he missed me . His friend had told me before during the I contact that he had confessed how much he missed me but he didn’t want a relationship. When we met he still said he missed me I told him I missed him too but the difference is he didn’t want me back , so I told him I was not going to wait around I was moving on I even lied that I had been invited to a babque so I could get away from him. I gave him a letter which I had written basically saying good bye and thanking him for the time we had . We parted . The next day he sent a looong email listing all the memories we had all the things he missed about , he mentioned that he loved me but he agreed that I can’t wait around and that I have to move on. He ended that email saying he doesn’t know what the future hold for us maybe some day we will find our way back together .
I want him back but can’t help but feel that I may have ruined the chance by telling him I’m moving on.he says I should call him for anything and that he will send me emails now and then I managed to get him to miss me but didn’t do things right for him to want me back. I haven’t been in touch with him and my thought is that he needs to contact me . I’m basically giving him his space right now because I have no clue what to do.
EBR Team Member: Amor
April 30, 2017 at 2:05 pm
you have to really make it seem you’re moving on now while you’re just being friendly to build rapport.
Grace
April 26, 2017 at 5:52 pm
Hi?
I sent a text and got no reply. Did you get it?
EBR Team Member: Amor
April 29, 2017 at 9:40 pm
did you mean the comment? Yes, we did.. I’m going to copy paste my answer there here.
Whether he gets back or not, change first. The more you beg, the less chance you have. You have to come from a point, that it’s ok to lose him if it doesn’t work out.
Amy
April 26, 2017 at 3:51 pm
My ex broke up with me by ignoring me. Its been 2 years of nc and other day he added me on facebook, but didn’t contacted me. I tought he forgot about me. Should i do anything or not, will he contact me eventualy? (sorry for my eng)
Amy
May 18, 2017 at 6:09 pm
He texted me and said that he is sorry for hurting me and feels bad about it and he wishes to stay friends and nothing more. I realy feel that there is hope for us. How do i get him to chase me again? Should i start no contact again?
EBR Team Member: Amor
May 19, 2017 at 9:58 pm
if you replied, you should restart the count.. if not, just continue the count. It’s normal that he would want to stay friends, most exes ask that because they’re still used to having you in their life.. check this one:
The Ungettable Girl
Amy
May 18, 2017 at 2:31 pm
He said that he is sorry for hurting me and that he feels bad about it, and he said that he doesn’t want anything from me. Why does he keeps coming back to me if he doesn’t want anything, i feel like he is scared he was always nervous around me. Do you have any article that can help me? What should i do? I realy feel that there is hope for us…
Amy
May 14, 2017 at 8:20 pm
He likes my pictures. Should i do anything or not?
EBR Team Member: Amor
May 15, 2017 at 2:52 pm
nothing.. just keep improving and posting but that’s a good sign
EBR Team Member: Amor
April 29, 2017 at 10:28 pm
if he sees you or your posts, would he be interested?
Lily
April 26, 2017 at 8:21 am
Hi. Started the NC after two fails. Broke up with my ex last month and the last thing he said to me before I started the NC was that I asked him if what are we. He said honestly he doesn’t know. He said before that he wanted to be less than a relationship but more than strangers. He is confusing and would sometimes flirt with me. Does he want me back? I’m so confused as to what he really wants
EBR Team Member: Amor
April 26, 2017 at 4:29 pm
It can mean he’s not used to you not being around so he wants you two to remain as friends
Grace
April 25, 2017 at 6:01 pm
Hi?
My ex and i broke up again after trying a relationship once more because i had too much drama.
He is upset because i never change and because i never learn despite him giving me so many chances to change.
I called him so many times, texted him a lot and begged him for one last chance but he said no and that he will never date me again. I love him so much and i want him back. I’m trying no contact now but I’m scared it might not work on him because he seems serious about not ever dating me again..he’s ignoring my texts and I feel like he’s avoiding me too. What should i do? Will he consider trying a relationship with me? Please help
EBR Team Member: Amor
April 29, 2017 at 9:40 pm
Whether he gets back or not, change first. The more you beg, the less chance you have. You have to come from a point, that it’s ok to lose him if it doesn’t work out.
Natália
April 25, 2017 at 12:31 pm
Hi, well I want to tell my story. I was alone for a long time after a terrible abusive relationship, then I just wanted some “fun” and different relationship so I went to the website seekingarrangment to find out what was that. I am brazilian, 29 years old. After some months talking with people from the site I met this one “Jerry” we started to talk through Whatsapp every single day, really long phone calls, texts and etc. I started to be in love, and it was looking like he was in the same situation. He is 59 years old. He sent me money to go to USA to meet him, and I did. It was just amazing the two days we spend together but at the end of the second day he started to have no patience with everything, he have Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and he is a executive with a lot of pressure and he used to be in “control” of people all the time, just saying do this do that…. then he started to do that to me.
I am a psychologist and I am reaaally patient and calm. So I said for the whole day “just relax… calm down” until night.
He was making dinner for me, then he started with “do this do that” and I said “hey just calm down” He got mad at me and said “look I am like this and I wont change!!” Then I was kinda tired of him saying that to me so I said “Look if you keep treating like this I will just go to the bedroom”
After that he said for me to put the garlig on the bread. I was doing that and he started to get mad at me AGAIN he was like “Why you dont use your hands to be more fast?????” then I said ” Look its ok if you are like this but I have my time I am calm” then he started to say I am “slow”. so thats was enough for me I went to the bedroom and he screamed “ARE YOU SURE YOU WILL LEAVE ME ALONE????” and I just thought that I was bothering him so he needed a time to cool down a bit and relax.. the next morning he treated me like i wasnt at his house.
It was awful, just pretending I didnt exist. Then I said “why you didnt like me” and he said “every choice you make have a consequence, this is your choice, this is your fault”
I started to cry, because it wasnt my choice!!! then I started to say “come here lets talk” he started to treat me REALLY BAD and then I started to cry way more too.
He said I am an emotional wreck and he doesnt want that, he need someone to be with him be his wife not someone like me, he said we didnt have chemistry, and started to really hurt me emotionally.
He said “get out of my house” a couple times, but imagine the situation, i came from Brazil, I was alone there!!!!
Anyways it got really bad he said he was about to call the police if i didnt stop asking him to stop treating me like shit and just talk to me, then he didnt want to drive me to the airport so he called the uber. When the uber arrive he tried to take my bag and I just did the same as he and didnt let him touch me or mhy things.
When I leave he blocked me from EVERYWHERE, i tried to call and he blocked my number, blocked whatsapp and didnt answer my email.
I had the best and the worst weekend at same time and its been 2 weeks after that and Im still blocked… I just want him back to me he was a prince and then all this happened….
Its been 9 days NC rule but it dont know if it will work… and of course I did everything wrong and say that I love him and I miss him 🙁
help me please. by the way I tried to buy the book but I dont have credit card doesnt have a paypal type of billying?
HELP ME PLEASE
EBR Team Member: Amor
April 29, 2017 at 9:30 pm
are you improveing yourself now and being active in posting? If not, restart the count and do that even if you’re blocked. Just make the posts public.
April
April 25, 2017 at 12:04 am
My boyfriend of 3 years is cheating on me. I just caught him yesterday on Facebook when the other woman put up photos of them together. I am devastated. He always said he would never cheat. I am supposed to hear from him Wednesday, but I think I am going to not take his calls, and maybe wait to confront him. Should I start no contact now? He hasn’t texted or called me in 3 days.
EBR Team Member: Amor
April 29, 2017 at 8:55 pm
yes, you should.
April
April 24, 2017 at 11:58 pm
My boyfriend of 3 years is cheating on me. I just caught him yesterday on Facebook when the other woman put up photos of them together. I am devastated. He always said he would never cheat. I am supposed to hear from him Wednesday, but I think I am going to not take his calls, and maybe wait to confront him. Should I start no contact now? He hasn’t texted or called me in 3 days.
EBR Team Member: Amor
April 29, 2017 at 8:54 pm
Yes, you should.
Confused
April 23, 2017 at 11:37 am
Hi, I was seeing this guy who was saying it was just casual, but we had argument and he stopped talking to me for a couple weeks, so I went on date with someone else in that time and he found out and has now blocked me on everything. I just don’t understand if it was just casual and he wasn’t even talking to me what’s to get upset about? Did he expect me to just hang around waiting for him.? I feel by him blocking me that it was more than just casual like he made out n he had some feelings or am I wrong?
EBR Team Member: Amor
April 29, 2017 at 7:21 pm
well, if he really values you, he would show it. He would make you feel you feel valuable but not by blocking. That move looks more like ego.
Karen
April 20, 2017 at 11:13 pm
Hi! Broke up with ex last 2 weeks ago. He said that he cant handle the relationship right now. What got me more confused is that he said he wants to be more than strangers but less than a relationship. I asked if he wanted to be friends. He said that it is a broad spectrum of relationship and he said that it is a bad idea to give a specific one. So I sadi alright then started the NC. He hasnt talked or texted to me ever since. I’m so confused to what his intentions really are.
EBR Team Member: Amor
April 26, 2017 at 4:30 pm
It can mean he’s not used to you not being around so he wants you two to remain as friends
Amy
April 15, 2017 at 11:57 pm
Together for 3.5 years. We broke up 2 months ago over text. I initiated the break up but after 2 weeks of NC I said we should try again and he said he wasn’t interested and said we need to move on. But he was really upset about the break up. So we went into NC again for 10 days. Last night I saw him at a bar and he left the moment he saw I was there. What does that mean??
EBR Team Member: Amor
April 16, 2017 at 2:32 pm
that’s hard to tell..it can mean he doesn’t want you to chase him or he’s still hurt seeing you.. but you need o do a proper nc.. restart the count, do 30 days, be active in improving yourself andnin posting and take it slow in building rapport after
dont ask to get back together right then and there
Betty
April 13, 2017 at 8:38 pm
Hi there,
I need some advice big time. Feeling lost and confused.
My ex and I broke up in December of last year. It was not a good breakup. We had been fighting and there was Alot of mean exchanges between the two of us. I moved out.
In late January, he contacted me saying he missed me. At the end of Feb he said he wanted to give it another shot, only he wanted to move slow. I had so much anxiety about this, I pushed and pushed him for more than he could give me at the moment. I wanted him to trust me and let me in, when he needed baby steps and too heal.
I feel it wasn’t the right time for us. He has since ended things again and I am devestaed. He says I pushed him too far, that he loves me but no longer wants the relationship. Have I pushed him to far? Did we wreck out chance?
Or is there still a chance if I back off for a few months and really work on my anxiety and issues. He was willing once, I just don’t know if he will soften his heart again to me.
Any advice??
EBR Team Member: Amor
April 16, 2017 at 7:04 am
there’s always a chance.. start with 30 days, make the most of it.. If you need to extend to 45 that’s ok..
M.
April 11, 2017 at 11:05 pm
Hello,
Im writing for quite the opposite reason. Two days ago I runninto my ex who broke me up like 3years ago while I was with my mother. I have written about him here in the past. Following the advice here i had managed to get him back once.Meanwhile we had planned a trip together in which we were supposed to ‘come closer’ and in which I paid the tickets cause he had difficulties in the time,but in the last min. He says he can’t make it and he can’t be with me. So i go to NC again only to find out months later when i started contact again that he has a gf, which looks like me btw. After that I never talked with him again or anything, while he owes me the money from the trip,which he said he would give me. He never talked qith me or liked any of my photo or returned the money. But he stills has me on fb and instagram. So he was with that girl,at some point after a year or so they broke up but then get back together,i’m not sure what’s their relantionship now but they press like and react to each other,BUT he lately has started to press like to other girls,which he didn’t do before,he doesnt tag her on anything and his posts are weird and actually make me angry cause he kind of preaches.Also he started using instagram which he didn’t before. And to return to my point, after all that and after all this time, i run into him when I was with mom. I can’t do anything cause mom doesn’t really know him and what happened,so I just play indefferent, I don’t even look at him,but turn and talk to my mother. So he passes right next to us,unfortunatelly I couldn t see at all if he looked,if he recognised me or anything. I kind of thought he didn’t recognised me until today when I see he had liked a photo I posted on instagram. So i’m really,REALLY confused. He never liked anything I posted before. So I have two thoughts; that he didn’t realised who I was because i have a nickname and he kind of likes every girls’s pics OR that he recognised me the other day and this like was indeed for me but I don’t get the point… Thats why I m writing again. What from the above two is true? What does that like mean? I dont know how to deal with this!
M.
April 19, 2017 at 9:03 pm
It seems so.. But he could be a man and talk, not expecting anything from me righ
M.
April 12, 2017 at 10:19 pm
So he wants my attention? Why after all these years and when he still owes me money? that’s an audacity 4
EBR Team Member: Amor
April 13, 2017 at 6:36 pm
can be.. but it’s more probably that natural reaction when we saw someone we know and then we thought of greeting them but we didn’t, so in a way, he says hi through social media.. just being friendly.. unfortunately, it doesn’t look like he thinks about what he owes you or he just wants to touch base and maybe repay that after talking to you.
EBR Team Member: Amor
April 12, 2017 at 7:33 pm
it just probably means he saw you too but he thought you didn’t see him..
irene
April 11, 2017 at 7:48 pm
Hi
i wanted to say that the no contact rule worked even though it has been 8 months now. My ex bf unexpectedly texted me saying sorry and he also said that he still had feelings for me and asked whether inhad the same for him too.. to which i forgave him and didn’t replied to that question. But i couldn’t feel any change while texting him.
A few days later i noticed that he had unsend that “i still have feelings for you” text from his side. I noticed this because i had taken a screenshot of the message during texting. He didnt unsend the sorry but that particular line only.
What can that be ? Please help.
EBR Team Member: Amor
April 12, 2017 at 7:07 pm
probably because he didn’t get a reply.. so might as well erase that message