Thinking About Getting Back with Your Ex? Consider These Questions

SIX QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU RECONCILE:

• 1. WHY? Lonely, abandoned, longing for the familiar.

• 2. HAVE BOTH OF YOU TAKEN RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE BREAK UP?

• 3. DID YOU BREAK UP BECAUSE OF A DEAL BREAKER? Have you lowered your standards because you are lonely? Are you going against your core values? Can your ex help you trust again? Have they really changed?

• 4. ARE THERE UNHEALTHY PATTERNS THAT WILL COME BACK? Do you use sex to avoid intimacy or manipulate? Does one of you avoid difficult conversations?

• 5. HAVE YOU BOTH GROWN AS SEPARATE PEOPLE? Therapy? Other relationships?

• 6. HAVE YOU UNDERGONE COUPLES THERAPY?

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