Why do people feel a need to block their ex?

[ManOnFire]

Even if their ex wasn't even stalking them or talking to them anymore. I'm always seeing people on other forums asking why their ex blocked them on social media or phone number, even if it's weeks or months later. What is the point in blocking someone you broke up with? Especially if neither of you were talking to each other. I've never blocked any of my exes. The most I do is unfollow on social media or delete their number from my phone.

So I want to know, if your ex was not even bothering you, what is the point in blocking them?

[Calyptomaniac]

I don't get it either unless it was particularly explosive and dramatic and painful leaving with a lot of animosity toward each other. I'm mildly curious how things are with my last guy. It would be a quite civil conversation, but since neither of us have much of any online presence whatsoever, I couldn't find him at all. There's nothing for either of us to block each other on but there would have been no need to anyway. Everything was amicable. I don't feel the need to pretend he doesn't exist though. I suppose it all depends on how it ended and why.

[ManOnFire]

Right. Before we ever had social media or cell phones, people simply broke up and stopped talking. There was nothing to block, and you didn't create second accounts just to stalk them either. People moved on.

[NathanDavis]

"out of sight... out of mind" ? probably?