Great article - I have recently been talking to and spending time my "ex" again, although I really hate using this term.(It holds such a negative connotation.)Even after 2 years of being apart, I never stopped loving him,but for practical purposes only, we will say "ex". Anwyay, while us being apartmay have been goodin some ways,I feel we broke up for less than reasonable reasons and for reasons stated in this article.


Our biggest problem was that he didn't want to spend as much time with me as I wantedor do a lot of the things I wanted to do.Really, it's nota terrible problem to have though... someone loving another person so much that they want to spend as much time with them as possible. And, on the other end, I could have been more creative and patient. It was more about him than it was me, and I shouldn't have taken it so personally. In retrospect, the fact that I love, trust and respect him more than anyone else I've ever known (and I'm 30 now) is much more important that a relatively small issue that could have been worked though had we communicated a bit more effectively.


It is too soon to tell if we will enter back into a committed relationship or "end up together", but I have every hope we could, and I'm simplygratefulto be givena second chance.


Thanks for writing this article. I hope it will help someone else not make the samemistake that I made and had to learn the hard way.