
Why your ex still reaches out periodically: intermittent reinforcement
I hear from so many people who have an ex they ‘randomly’ hear from out of the blue, typically via email or text. And these exes range from people they went on barely a handful of dates with, to people they dated but who didn’t feel ready for a...Tips: How to break up with a lovely person
Newsflash: Lovely, nice, sweet, fantastic, considered-wonderful-by-society’s-standards people have breakups. Far too many people, though, behave as if only ‘bad’ people should get dumped or have their feelings unreciprocated. There’s also this...We don’t want to do the hard thing, but we do want the freedom it offers
No one really wants to go No Contact. They don’t. It’s why when we’re post-breakup and struggling to get over them or hurting from continued disrespect, mind games, mixed messages or just the realisation that it’s not possible to be friends at this...