Showing posts with label Get Back At Your Ex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Get Back At Your Ex. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

5 Best Ways To Get Back At Your Ex

The relationship between two people is a delicate bond. A bond that requires building up and maintenance for the relationship to flourish and be healthy. The sad fact is that breaking up is a reality and is often frustrating, stressful and nerve wracking. After a break up it is perfectly normal for you to want to get back at your ex.
However, you need to ask yourself if that's really the best thing to do. The art of getting back at your ex can actually lead to getting back together with your ex. By applying the following five tips, your ex may appreciate you more, and want to get back together with you.
1) Stay strong. The last thing you want to do is beg. Acting needy and clingy smacks of hopeless desperation, and is more of a turn off than anything. Also, by being weak you will be giving more power to your ex, and that tends to make things worse. Instead, give your ex the impression that you are doing fine without them by staying strong. Perhaps your ex will realize you have moved on, but they weren't as ready to split as they first thought.
2) Reduce communication. What? You may be wondering how not talking to each other could ever help you get your ex back. It seems so counterintuitive. But in the long run, it can be a smart move. It gives both parties a chance to cool down and reassess what went wrong. Additionally, it gives your ex more time to miss you. The old saying "absence makes the heart grow fonder" is true in this case and can lead to being together again.
3) Flexibility is vital. Avoid ultimatums and demands. Instead of arguing, try sympathizing and listening. Go with the flow and be flexible. Your ex may be happy to see that you are willing to compromise and be reasonable. This alone may be enough get them thinking about being a couple again. Plus, it shows them that you don't always have to argue. (Now, how did I know you have argued in the past?)
4) Go out! Look, you broke up...everybody gets that. But that doesn't mean you need to wallow in self-pity and isolate yourself from your friends and having a good time. Go out. Live a little. Have fun. Be with friends. You don't need to start dating to prove a point, just have a good time. Not only will doing this be therapeutic, it will also make you look better in the eyes of your ex.
5) Be yourself. That's all. Just be who you are. Chances are that your ex was originally attracted to some element, or elements of who you really are. Be confident in being whoever you are. Nobody likes a phony, and your ex, in time, may respond to the same things they found so appealing when they first met you. Mending those broken bonds are a sure way to get your ex back for good.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Get Back At Your Ex Why Would You Bother

Many people, women particularly it has to be said, appear to spend hours thinking of ways to answer the question of how to get back at your ex? My view on this is why bother? The only person you'll wind up hurting is yourself. Anger and regret are negative emotions and don't have any long term value to add to your life.

Couples split up for all kinds of reasons but I firmly believe that it takes 2 to tango. Yes, he might have had an affair or she might have a drink problem but at the end of the day it's typically too simple to lay the blame for the break up at one person's feet.

But when a relationship ends it should be final unless both of you decide that you wish to get back together. Otherwise, move on. Do not waste your time or energy trying to dream up ways to destroy his life or pick fights with her new man.

Every man or woman over the age of 21 has been dumped at some point in their lives. If they say they have not, they're in all likelihood lying. Breaking up could be extremely painful - you only have to see how many movies and songs are written on the subject. Even classic books involve painful relationships - have you read Jane Eyre lately?

Relationships of all types make the world go round and it would be a really boring place if we were happy always. Stories such as Cinderella and sleeping Beauty end when the couple kiss and we all believe they'll live happily ever after. Cinderella and Beauty have found their Mr Right, but what they do not know is that his first name is always!

Life is too short to live it out with a grudge against somebody else. The only person that will suffer will be you and those that love you. Your ex will be long gone - do you truly think that they give you more than a fleeting thought. They did not care enough about you to stay together so why would they care now?

There are plenty of loveable people for you to date and perhaps fall in love with. But you will never find a fulfilling new relationship if your life is consumed by hatred for somebody else. Being on your own for the first time in a while could be hard but it may also be liberating. Think positively - you now have the chance to do all the things you wanted to do but your partner was not interested in.

Make a list of twenty things you have to be thankful for and read this nightly before you fall asleep. Add five things to your list daily and you will shortly find yourself enjoying life so much that you will not have time to worry about how to get back at your ex. It will be more like ex who?