Penny for your thoughts: How many of you think about your ex's?

[ta-ra]

How many of you think about your ex's? Or old situationships? Do you ever think about contacting them again?

Everyday

Once in a while

Never

I wish I could stop..

Updates

8 mo

You all had great answers! Thank you for answering

[caring__1]

I did once, until I got her response when I did send her a letter. That response confronted me with the reality that I was in love with the concept of love and saw what I expected and wanted to see, not what was under the surface. When her self-centered insensitivity came to light, I was able to let go of the fantasy and see her for the person she chooses to be. I respect her choice to be the person she chooses to be, but I would have no interest in having her be anything other than a significant milestone from my past.

[ta-ra]

I'm glad you at least got some closure. As hard as it must of have been I'm glad you healed

[caring__1]

It's not uncommon, when we're young, for us to lose ourselves in the concept of love and not even know what signs to look for or have a willingness to actually look. Young love is very intense and very beautiful, though mature love is more likely to provide us with stability over time.

[ta-ra]

100%

[exitseven]

If I drive bay some place where we used to go or if I see a movie on TV that we saw when it first came out or something like that.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[provokeesmokee]

I occasionally wonder if either of my ex bfs are dead in a ditch, unemployed, or still working customer service jobs. But usually it's fleeting and I move on quick.

My most recent exgf sometimes I wonder if she's doing well, and I'm still debating trying to forge a friendship with her.

[Justneedtokno]

I reflect on exes want to gain clarity on why it didn’t work out in the first place and to get a better understanding of self and what I need for my future three there were some good moments in there somewhere and four sometimes places people and things trigger memories

[Justneedtokno]

Aww thank you 😊

[OlderAndWiser]

Occasionally, there are a few exes who I remember fondly, and I reminisce about the good times that we had, but I also always remember why we broke up, and fond memories is not the same as being in love. You don't move forward by looking behind you, so I almost never reach out to an ex, and never, never if I m in a relationship with someone else. I have done that only twice in the last 25 years.

[OlderAndWiser]

Just to clarify: Reached out twice to an ex, NOT reached out twice when I was in a relationship.

[ta-ra]

I have the same thought process as you, thanks for answering 😊

[Avicenna]

The only ex I think about outside of mentioning something on GAG is one I've been good friends with since we broke up over two decades ago.

[peedy]

Funny you should ask that today, i was on my why to the bank today and im on a narrow side st and the bank is just up head on the left i got an on coming car passing on the left and a parked car on the right with the drivers door open, and everyone is going to meet at the parkec car and there isn't enough room and thats about the time i see my ex getting out of the parked car that im about to run intio, luckily i braked enough so the on coming car pssec and i than was able to swere to the left and avoid running her over
So you ask if i think about her hell i almost ran over her today , does that count i was kinda forced to think about her

[ta-ra]

😂😂

[Andres77]

Sadly, I have three. The first called me after 13 years crying and apologizing. Forgiven. We’re distant friends now. We want each other happy but we will never reunite.

second ex, psycho. Nada. Done. Sadly she’s filed for bankruptcy twice and her son (my ex step son) died in drug related violence, just like both of her older brothers.

current is the mother of my two only daughters. constant game of chess, because though I still love her she is violent and volatile and is manipulating my daughters against me. I love her and despise her at the same time. She’s hurting my daughters but my daughters believe everything she says. One day they will wake up and realize how much they hurt the one man that will love them forever.

if women would learn to direct the flow of our power…they’d have much less to worry about.
granted, there are evil men. Then they need honorable men to destroy them. There might be more options but that’s my experience.

[abc3643]

I sent her an email on 22 AUG - what would have been our 33rd anniversary. The next day was the 30th anniversary of the last time that I ever saw her face.

No response - there's been no response since 1997.

It's been a tough week.

[ta-ra]

I'm sorry

[abc3643]

Me too...

[Beccaasaar]

Certain things I'm doing reminds me of them and not bad things

[Flower7]

I think about them in a negative way, like remembering the bad memories and the bad things that they said to me.

[ta-ra]

I'm sorry

[Fireguy17]

Not often, there are a few that I'm still not sure why we just didn't last maybe a couple times a year I wonder what if.

[smashleyy]

whenever any of them come to mind it’s usually never good. Haven’t thought about reaching out after getting out of the wounded mindset

[ta-ra]

That's understandable

[LiamJHayden]

Every so often. There is only one I'd consider rekindling things with, and that is only because we broke up because of necessity - she was going to university Back East - not because it did not work out.

[ta-ra]

Those are the hardest ones.

[REX_JSWL]

As we have a mutual breakup without any fight we rarely talk butyeah there is no bad blood between us

[NathanDavis]

we're friends...

so I see them like that, just friends...

[BunBun369]

This won't get anyone in trouble 😂😂.

Here and there. almost always drunk 🤣😭🤣😭

[Alex-Snow]

Do you think the yes and sometimes answers think of them during sex or masturbation?

[ta-ra]

I'd imagine yes if they are still fond of them. Not so much for the ones who hate their exes

[Alex-Snow]

True I have thought of some ex girlfriends when jerking off but not during sex. How bout you?

[Redstang88]

Every day. Tried, blocked everywhere I know how to reach her

[Anonymous]

Hardly. But I’ve had some come approach me now with criticism attached.
With that, I don’t reply and just laugh about how I dodged a bullet. One though I do regret ever being with, my 1st!

[mandyfire98]

Yeah I do from time to time.

[jjj101010]

I think about them sometimes, usually when I’m horny and want to revisit those memories

[ummi59]

The past is past i face the future now

[lilBigPotato]

Every now and then it can happen