Instead of getting closure from your conversation, you might reopen old wounds.

You might move two steps backward in your healing process.

Either way, before you presssend, you should think through the pros and cons.

Is Texting Your Ex Actually A Good Idea?

Annie Spratt

You might be able to ask them questions that have been keeping you up at night.

You might be able to learn truths that were holding you back from moving on.

You might be able to give them a final goodbye that helps your healing process along.

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They might make excuses about why they treated you poorly.

They might take a stab at shift the blame onto you.

They might lie through their teeth so you can make themselves look like the victim.

Or they might not answer your messages at all and youll end up feeling evenmorepissed off at them.

Youre blinded to your persons faults because you love them so much.

However, reconnecting with your ex might give you a fresh look at them.

It might make you realize they were never worthy of you in the first place.

It might make you realize you truly are better off without them.

You might move two steps backward in your healing process.

You might remember all of the things you loved about this person and start missing them more than ever.

Talking to them might prolong your heartache.

It might make it even more difficult for you to stay away from them in the long-run.

They might surprise you by how much they have grown while you have been apart.

They might have realigned their priorities and shifted into someone you could spend forever alongside.

History is probably going to repeat itself.

You are probably going to deal with the same set of relationship issues you had the first time around.

You are probably going to regret texting them and letting them back into your world.