Current Events > How long have you been hung up on an ex?

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It's really only officially been over since March. By officially, I mean no hooking up or flirting. Both of us seeing other people. We were together for almost 5 years.

I guess two months isn't unreasonable.

But it feels like it's been a lifetime.

I got into a rebound relationship, and that, coupled with some therapy sessions have showed me just how much I miss my ex. My therapist says I'm making good progress, but... It still doesn't make it suck any less.

Sometimes its taken a couple of months for me to get over an ex. Btw arent you the person who supposedly was dating another user here?

My ex is an avid user. Yes.

Like I ever had anyone to become an ex in the first place
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PenguinsBabe posted...

My ex is an avid user. Yes.

What is their account again?

The longest I've been hung up on a girl, I dated her for 6 months but we were just fucking for almost a year before that so it felt like, in my head, we were together (and at the very least I had genuine romantic feelings towards her) for a year and a half even though we were only officially a couple for 6 months. And even before all of that, we were friends all throughout high school and I often wonder how things would have played out if we didn't wait until after graduation to admit our feelings towards one another.

It's been 4 years since we broke up and I finally know I'm over her. I'm glad we spent the time together and I wish her the best. I hope she's happy and that she found someone who will bring out the best in her.

The most recent girl, we were on and off for 8 years and since last breaking up in January of this year I feel like I'm starting to get over it. We tried it numerous times and nothing happened, nothing changed. We're too different for one another, we brought out a lot of good from each other but we were never the best and just played it selfishly with the fantasy of young love always in the back of our minds. We can't be 15 forever, we can't be innocent and curious and ignorant and unfazed by the world forever. We'd fall too much and instead of braving it out we'd coddle the other and never let ourselves grow. I didn't want to grow, because I always wanted to be the boy she first fell in love with at 15. I didn't want to lose that look in her eyes, the way they'd shine when she put her head on my chest and look up at me.

Us breaking up plenty of times already in the past makes it easier. Like I said, at this point we were just together out of selfishness, us not wanting to see each other with anybody else. Us saying that we've grown this old together and we're still in and out of each other's lives, that it's gotta mean something.
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