No Ex On The First Date
You’re on a date. You’re both nervous and you make polite chit chat. Maybe you order a drink and loosen up a little and you’re both tentatively finding out about each other. You start talking about dating/relationships/how you’ve come to be on this date and somehow the conversation slips into the shock infested waters of [...]
Advice: Why won’t he contact me?
Last month I advised Astelle with Advice: Help me understand how my emotionally unavailable man has been treating me and Advice: Why did he respond if he’s not interested in me?. To do a quick recap, Astelle was involved with an emotionally unavailable man who she wouldn’t hear from for long periods of time unless [...]
Breaking Up and Moving On By Cutting Contact. Part 3
I won’t lie to you ladies; initiating and maintaining the No Contact Rule is hard. You need to grow balls of steel to support your willpower and be prepared to suffer the short-term pain for the medium and long-term gain. The No Contact Rule (NCR) is about putting yourself first and you need to do [...]
Breaking Up and Moving On By Cutting Contact. Part 2
The No Contact Rule means that you have to go cold turkey but you put yourself in the driving seat, create your own closure, and you start to control the relationship that you have perceived as uncontrollable. It is an exit strategy and trust me, you will use the No Contact Rule if you truly [...]
Breaking Up and Moving On By Cutting Contact. Part 1
A while back, Rose City Girl explained the No Contact Rule which drew in quite a few comments. More and more of you are writing to me wanting to know more about the ‘no contact’ rule and how to move forward.
The No Contact Rule is a delicate balancing act between taking back control, booting someone [...]
Can’t We Just Be Friends?
It’s not long after the words have been uttered that render your relationship over that some form of request for friendship will be made. It’s almost as if we have all received some sort of relationship training that makes people the world over trot out the words as a form of consolation that hopefully dilutes [...]
Why You Shouldn’t Confront Your Ex
Ex’s tend to throw up more questions than answers. It’s better to get over the desire to confront your ex because it’s a futile exercise which may end up leaving you even more in the dark, or angrier, more hurt, or any number of negative things, but it rarely gives you closure.
It stands to reason [...]
Advice: Should I Confront My Ex?
“My boyfriend recently broke up with me, after we were together for two years, with first year not so serious. He wanted to be with me but I wasn’t as interested, but the second year we played house. I would go over there cook him dinner, clean, decorate (buy all of it).I was the perfect [...]
Advice - Should I let a sleeping ex dog lie?
“My ex of almost 5 years ago is currently single and sniffing around. I ran into him recently which is not hard where I live, and he was all googly-eyed over me. We have not had much contact in the past 5 years due to the fact he ripped my heart out and we both [...]
Your Past & Exes On Dates
I remember being on a date with an ex and him asking me what my previous boyfriends profession was. “He’s an IT contractor” I replied and I noted that a dark look passed over his face. Later after a few drinks he whined “I’m just a lowly mechanic in comparison to your rich ex. Why [...]
