Should You Take Your Ex Girlfriend Back?

You meet this awesome girl. Someone you’ve never met before. Someone amazing!

And even better – she feels the same way about you!

You’re both in love and everybody you know keeps telling you how perfect you are for each other. So you decide to start dating.

However, when the “honeymoon phase” ends, you have your first real fight. But hey, that’s totally normal because every couple fights once in a while!

Then other fights follow and before you know it, everything starts to fall apart! Eventually, you both realize that this relationship is falling apart and decide to break up.

Now you are both vulnerable and start second guessing if breaking up was really the right choice. So you get back in touch and start reminiscing about the good times.

After some time, thoughts of getting back together begin to surface and you seriously start to consider it. After all, other girls don’t even compare to her. So she has to be “the one” and you shouldn’t just give up like that! (Isn’t this what movies teach us?)

Finally, she tells you that maybe you should just give the relationship another go.

So, here you are, wondering whether or not you should you take this step.

Should you really take your ex-girlfriend back and try to work it out? Should you try everything in your power to make this relationship healthy and lasting? Or, should you just forget about it and try to move on with your life?

Getting Back Together, or Not?

Now, the thing with a breakup is that most of the times it will hurt like hell. And since we are programmed to avoid pain at any cost, the best solution seems to be getting back together again to remedy this pain.

This seems like a reasonable decision because it would make both of you happy again, but it might not be a lasting solution!

The problem with getting back together with an ex is that most of the times people completely ignore all the bad times they had with each other and focus only on the good ones!

This means that they forget about all the fights they had, the bad things they said, even how much they hurt each other. They only focus on the good times where both of them were happy.

But by overlooking all the bad makes them ignore the most important issue: the reason why they broke up in the first place!

If a couple decides to completely avoid the reason for the breakup, it will resurface and eventually break them up again!

It’s only natural that after we lose something, our first reaction is to get it back. This is, however, a massive mistake when it comes to a breakup!

Since we are usually not thinking rationally and act out of pain, we let our emotions drive us. We throw all reason and caution to the wind.

But in this case, rational thought is our biggest ally – it forces us to take a step back and think things through before making another mistake.

It helps us to see where we went wrong.

So if you really want to get back together, your best bet might be to take some time off and think things through!

The Harsh Truth About a Breakup

The harsh truth is this: even if you try to fix the issues you both had, you will discover that most of the time, they can’t be fixed. Not every problem can be solved.

That’s why you would simply do yourself (and her) a favor and not even try.

While this might look like you are just giving up, it’s a far better solution in the long run than trying to fix a damaged relationship that is beyond repair. It will save you the pain and suffering, and sometimes even your sanity.

Like I said before, when we break up it’s usually for a reason (often several). This means that we’re not satisfied with the other person.

While you might think that you’re willing to change for her, or she would do the same for you in the name of getting back together, this change wouldn’t be permanent unless it comes from the person who needs to do it.

It’s very difficult to change yourself even if you want it, doing it to please another person is even more so!

That’s why it’s much easier to find someone else than to try and fix things or hope that the other person stays the way you want them to stay.

Now, of course, there will always be exceptions!

Some couples even find their “happy ever after” when getting back together again. But for every couple like this, there are countless examples where getting together again was the biggest mistake they have ever done!

Some of them are still together and in denial of the fact that there just isn’t any chemistry between them anymore, but they both are too terrified to admit it and start from ground zero.

They stay in this miserable relationship just because they are too afraid to get back out there and risk with getting hurt again.

So, I’m not telling you never try to give a relationship another shot!

Just keep in mind that you should not forget all the negative stuff you relationship had. If you both are able to fix the problems without trying to change the other person (especially if the other person doesn’t even want to change) then by all means, give it another shot.

But if this is not possible, find the courage to start anew, with someone else!

The Conclusion

In the end, there is no right decision when it comes to getting back together again.

If after a really bad breakup all you can think about is how to fix it, then stop for a minute, put your emotions aside and think what the reason for the breakup was (and how much you suffered).

If you know you could live through this insane emotional roller-coaster again without losing your mind, give it another try.

But most people can’t and moving on is the best course of action.

Also, should you choose to stay in this relationship, consider this: you could lose out on meeting another girl that could turn out to be a much better match for you.

So don’t stay in a miserable relationship just because you’re afraid of being single!

And if you really think hard about this, you will probably come to the realization that the breaking up was the right thing to do. Because let’s face it, you two broke up for a reason and this reason is still there.

And for the most part, it’s there to stay!

But if you still think that getting together with a terrible ex is better than staying single and finding a better one, then you should seriously re-evaluate the qualities you are looking for in a woman.

And redefine for yourself what a healthy relationship actually means!

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