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Does your ex want you back? Here’s the breakdown
Why the hell is he texting you now? What does it mean?
Ok, so you shouldn’t be texting your ex, darling. Men who can’t make up their mind about you or choose you aren’t worth your spit and you’re just hurting yourself by staying in touch. But now we’re done the stern moral obligatiories, let me try to explain what he’s doing, why he’s doing it, and what in the petticoats and turncoat is going on. Warning: I’m going to be super harsh here, but you deserve the truth.
Situation 1: He’s called you after drinking a bottle of wine, a cocktail, and three beers, and said a lot of very intense things
Yeah sorry sis, he didn’t mean any of it. I’d be surprised if he even remembers what he said. Or, if he did, it was a deep, viscerally felt primal wound found at the bottom of a loneliness he’s not prepared to face down with a therapist. I’ve had men drunkenly tell me that I’m the love of their life, no one has ever seen them as totally as I have, I’m intoxicating, I’m too perfect to drink up in one go, and they can’t ever let me go…and then immediately jet off to New York to date a random woman they met on Hinge, having already forgotten how to pronounce my name. Alcohol just inflates and warps how we…
