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Does getting back together after 5 years of no contact happen and work?
After a bad break up, several years of no contact and then all of a sudden reconnecting it seems as though the guy I was with for the last 2.5 years is chatting and hanging out with his ex. She is in the process of getting divorced because her husband committed armed robbery to keep his coke habit going. She has a 5 year old and a 5 month old and recently spent the night with the guy I WAS seeing. He claims it was innocent. He is 37 and she is 32.
They didnt work out the first time around - no kids - no baggage back then and now she is going to have an ex husband to deal with and kids and all the reasons they broke up in the first place. Can they make it this time? I dont even know if they are trying to get back together but the whole spending the night with each other has me thinking its a thought in their heads.
Anyone have any stories of people getting back together years after their first break up???
i think getting back together after all those years is the exception not the rule. but i will tell you this....
i think lots of people will come to this post looking for those answers because so many of us want to think that after a long time of NC its possible to get back together with the one you love/loved. people will seek encouragement along those lines so they can have hope that after beaking up and being apart so long its possble to go back! they will want to hear stories like that. but i dont think the stories will pile up.
in your case...you were with him for 2.5 years. are you still with him? why am i not clear on that?
she was with him 5 years ago?
if you are currently with him, i would seriously ask him how he thinks his contact with her might affect you guys as a couple? how does he feel about worrying you by staying over night with her??? i would tell him i wasnt comfortable with a past lover and him spending time with them. but remind him that doesnt make you insecure..its just doesnt seem appropriate after all this time.
if youre not with him and you want him back and hes back in contact with her...
you need to open the doors of communication with him....somehow.
if he harbored feelings for her over the years while she was married and shes now free..so to speak...he might want to try to see how things will work out with her again. honestly she doesnt sound too hot to me...too stable. just a hunch.
i need more info. do you and he get along? talk? date? that would help me get a better sense of things. sorry its 1:45 AM and cloudy thinking. all i can say is if he wants her he sounds like hes headed for trouble and if you want him..there needs to be some form of communication....
what is your current status?
Don't be discouraged by a lack of posts here in regard to that, Roxstar. It could very well be that those people are happy now and have no need to refer to this website anymore
Things DO have a way of working out once each person is willing to take time to look inside themselves and change the negative that was interfering with making the relationship work in the first place. Sometimes it can take time. A lot of time! And true, maybe people move on, but as long as you keep an open mind, you'll find yourself moving on too. I believe everything is interconnected, and NATURE will present a second chance, you can't force it (once you've done what you can to show how you feel, sincerity, etc.).
I reunited with my ex after about two years of NC with my ex. Thing is I wanted him back so bad because It was NC after the break up and I felt as if I didn't have closure. And The person I envisioned was the guy I fell in love with whom I had always seen through Rose colored glasses.
Well 2 years later I reunited and we tried it out but I realized I had changed...I finally saw him without the rose colored glasses and saw a very ugly person. I received the closure I needed and was Finally able to get over him.
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My friend I know and went to school with dated a guy her whole senior year. They broke up probably 6 months after Graduating.
They somehow hooked up again 15 years later, and dated some more for 6 months then got married. They have one kid already and another one on the way.
I think in this case it was being too young to stay together forever and both needed to be with other people, experience life apart before finding eachother again.
Originally posted by whichwayisup
My friend I know and went to school with dated a guy her whole senior year. They broke up probably 6 months after Graduating.
They somehow hooked up again 15 years later, and dated some more for 6 months then got married. They have one kid already and another one on the way.
I think in this case it was being too young to stay together forever and both needed to be with other people, experience life apart before finding eachother again.
that is so beautiful, i think i'm gonna cry....*sniff* *sniff*
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Since alpha is huddled in a corner somewhere crying, I figured I'd answer and say sure this is possible, but as someone said earlier, those people don't come here and post as much as the distraught ones do.
Don't pay too much attention to the naysayers here. They're looking for comfort by trying to create a bond with others over their negative experiences.
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Since alpha is huddled in a corner somewhere crying,
No, i'm done weeping now, LOST_IN_CHGO
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I figured I'd answer and say sure this is possible,
I would agree, you can definitiely hook up with an old flame decades later but you both have to carry the flame (or at least the pilot lite still has to be lit).
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