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Monday, October 15, 2007
Nexting the ex…again
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Have you ever had the ex that’s like a boomerang? He or she just keeps showing up in your life, sometimes unannounced, sometimes expected, but always returning with the intention of wooing you back?
I got to spend the whole weekend with one of the most wonderful women I know from college. But her most recent (verbally abusive!) ex-boyfriend would not stop texting her! There they were: text after text. I just saw the best commercial…What’s up?… I miss you…I think we should be together. She dated this guy for more than a year, with a couple of breaks in between, but now all she wants to do is wash her hands of him. I advised her a few weeks ago that the best thing she can do is ignore him, because the times that she has told him she doesn’t want him around anymore, he resorts to criticizing her to the point of making her cry.
But apparently, the silent treatment is taking a while to sink in.
Do you have a boomerang ex? Is there someone who tends to swing back into your life when you least want him or her?
Have you ever been guilty of dating the ex multiple times, possibly encouraging the boomerang behavior to happen later?
Is there a better way to deal with someone you truly don’t want in your life anymore? Possibly something more mature than the silent treatment?
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