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Sunday, October 25, 2009

4 Points On How To Win Back Your Ex

By Mikey Van Deen

Getting back with an ex after a split can be a smooth process if you know what you are doing. If you don't know and are just blindly following your emotions right now, then I beg you to stop and take a deep breath and try to stay calm.

Follow these steps, and not your emotions, In terms of learning how to win back your ex after a split.

1. Avoid panicking. Panicking is perhaps the biggest and most common mistake people make after a breakup. In fact, a large percentage of them actually tend to loose their minds altogether, and when that happens, they end up phoning and texting their ex incessantly.

They become clingy, they become needy and this behavior is the ultimate turn off for your ex. It doesn't look good and will drive your ex further away.

So, what should you do instead? Generally speaking you need to stay calm and gather your thoughts before you try to work anything out.

2. Next pick up the pieces of your life. This involves putting you and your feelings first. You have to give yourself a makeover, get involved in a bit of retail therapy and get out on the town. You have to at least give the impression to your ex that your are handling things well without them and are moving on in your life.

Another tactic which you can employ, is to begin dating again. When your ex finds out that you're dating again, and you're not doing it simply to make them jealous, it often causes them to begin doubting whether or not it was a good idea to split up with you in the first place.

3. At this point you should start considering different ways to start becoming part of your ex's life again. In other words, if you've heard nothing from your ex after a month or so has passed, then it's time for you to get in touch with them. Of course, it goes without saying that you need to be careful when you do. Up until now, you've been doing pretty well, and you don't want to blow it by making a fool of yourself. In other words, your first contact shouldn't revolve around begging and pleading to get back together.

Remember, getting in touch with your ex is one small part of your plan, and as such, it needs to be executed with the utmost precision. Basically, you need to keep it smooth and light. Also, because you don't know exactly how they'll respond, you should ideally have a few different scenarios to fall back on. Don't allow yourself to end up in a situation where you're at a loss for words, and likewise, keep your emotions in check as well.

4. From here on in you have to work at getting the romance back into the relationship. We are basically after a clean start, with little or no looking back to the negative things of the past and there is no better way to do it than with romance.

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