The fact you break up and get back together often (you even say how it is "usually"), hides extreme communication issues between you two. Extreme. It means one of you two (or both) is being an extreme passive aggressive one with zero communication skills and maturity, who uses guilt traps and other forms of emotional abuse (like threatening to leave) to get attention or submission from the partner, instead of being able to have a talk about the actual problem, rationally.
This is an insane level of degeneration in a couple and I truly believe this mechanic has completely destroyed any trace of trust in this relationship (without trust you can't go anywhere, and by the way, you can't rebuild trust by just forgiving each other, you'll keep remembering what your partner is capable of when triggered anyway and this knowledge undermines any trust reforming at all).
So I don't think it even makes sense for you two to give it a chance, anyway.Second thing: you can't be "friends" (neither friends with benefits) with your ex after breaking up. It just doesn't work like that, you're both lying to each other. You can be friends with an ex only after a long time of processing the breakup, with distance, fully moving on in your life and possibly getting into someone else, so that's something you can do after several months or years of no-contact. Anything else before these phases is just not a friendship but an excuse you give to each other to break up gradually, not able to manage a full stop.
And that's why you ask him to not have female contacts. You don't ask it to a friend, typically, you ask it to a partner. So what you are doing now is not a friendship but you are just keeping the relationship softened (with some rules you probably decided, like texting less I guess?) to decide what to do next.
Fine then, that is what you should do. If you want the relationship back (as toxic as it was but that's what you want), then it's time to talk to decide if a relationship is actually doable, why it didn't work so far, why it might not work at all, what are the things you should both improve on each other to make it work and how available both of you are for compromises. In my opinion there is nothing to save here but anyway keep in mind you cannot fix trust and communication issues just by "rebounding" or having good sex or suddenly missing each other. If you want to get somewhere concrete you (both) must start addressing all the problems stacked between you two, untying them and exploring the options with honesty, to understand all your mutual fears and lacks of trust that kept accumulating for all this time.
If you get back together without initiating any work on communication you'll break up again soon, granted.
At the moment he just wants to have sex without the burden of discussing problems with you and without the limitation of talking with new girls, I assume. If he wanted to fix the relationship he would propose working on that and discussing that instead of proposing sex, of course.
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He's just using you. He'll pump you for a bit, then leave you after a while. You'd do well to stay away and move on.
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