AlwaysConflicted Posted June 20, 2010 Posted June 20, 2010 I've been posting a lot on this forum lately about my most recent break up, but I thought I'd share a failed strategy of mine that I tried 8 years ago. So I was dating this girl Melissa for 5 years and towards the end it just got rocky. Anyways, she says, "we need to talk". So I already know what's coming. She breaks up with me.... I walk away sad and call my friend Julie. So my friend says to me, just pull a George Costanza and pretend like it didn't happen. So I say, what do you mean? She says tomorrow, call Mellisa and ask her to go to breakfast and just act like the breakup never happened. So I said okay, that's pretty funny I'll give that shot. The next morning I call Melissa and ask her to go to breakfast and she agrees. So I'm thinking "wow, this totally worked". So the entire breakfast we just talk about life, laugh a little bit and there's no talk about the breakup whatsoever. I'm still thinking, I can't believe this ridiculous tactic worked. So at the end of breakfast, I say "So wanna catch a movie tonight?" So she says, "No, we're broken up...remember?" So I say, "Oh I thought you were just messing around last night" She says "no, we're not together anymore". So I drove home completely rejected. I was so sad. But that was 8 years ago and looking back I think it's absolutely genius that I tried it. I'm actually kind of proud of that one. I mean that just takes an insane amount of moxie.
LoveTruthChaos Posted June 20, 2010 Posted June 20, 2010 I do that too - but in a different way. My ex and I have a LOT of mutual friends. After people started realising we weren't together anymore, I started getting all these messages from friends saying 'Hey! What you been up to?....and how are you??????' I know what they were really asking, but I just told them about everything I've been up to and how excited I am for my upcoming plans. I love my friends, but they can suck it if they think I'm going to acknowledge my break up!
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