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Home > Family & People > Relationships   »   Wants to be friends after breaking up. Is he crazy?

 
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Old Apr 22, 2008, 09:55 PM
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Wants to be friends after breaking up. Is he crazy?

my boyfriend and I had a fight 3 weeks ago. We argued through the texts for a week. I called and asked to see him the next week. He said no, this is what you wanted. He told me I should have called him the next day, but I waited a week, so he got his closure. He's been calling for two days saying he still wants to be friends, as if nothing happened, and that it will never be like it was before. He acts like nothing happened and that we're just casual friends. I told him I need time to get him out of my head, but he won't listen. I'm sorry, but it takes more than a week for me to get over somebody. What could he be thinking? We were together 10 months and every time we faught, he never let it last two days. It drives me crazy to know he got over it so fast and now can be casual friends. Is this normal to anyone?

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Old Apr 22, 2008, 10:16 PM   #2  
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yep. USUALLY, dumpers want to remain friends because

1. they feel less guilty about it
2. they want their cake and "eat it too"
3. they don't want a void in their lives
4. they want to hang onto a possible future hookup

...any of them really.

check out the two stickies in the relationship forum...it should be able to pretty much gauge what'll happen.

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bellababy60 agrees: True. My b/f did the same thing...and when I wasn't AVAILABLE FOR HIM IN THAT WAY...HE CAME RUNNING BACK TO ME!
SusanMD agrees: You are so right. He wants his cake and eat it, too.
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Old Apr 22, 2008, 10:16 PM   #3  
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Well it depends on what was the reason 4 the breakup.
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Old Apr 23, 2008, 04:57 AM   #4  
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Seems to me like he might have been looking for an excuse to breakup and he fond it. Granted 10 months isn't a REAL long time, but one week for a 10 month relationship doesn't seem like it would be enough to move on...

My guess - he has been detaching himself for a while now...
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It may be normal for him, but thats not doing you any good is it? Stop all the contact with him, and do what you must to get over him, and move on, in your own time.
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MY b/f of four months tried everything to that effect after our 2nd break up and when I didn't make myself available to him in "that way"....BFF's/Companions etc...He came running back to me after he realized ON HIS OWN TERMS that I WAS the ONE for HIM. DO NOT allow yourself to be manipulated by your ex. He is your "ex" for a reason. Move on with your life and "detach" yourself from him....see how he likes it when you're not running to him at his beckon call! Be firm and tell him to never call or text you again unless he is willing to reconcile your relationship in the manner to which you left it. Work things out....or move on. Hope this helps.
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