Question: In your experience, can you reconnect with someone you dated briefly? I think things moved too quicky and he got scared.
We had a brief 2-month relationship. Things moved too quickly and passionately. From day one, we were texting all day and spent nights together 5 days a week. We had hard an amazing weekend together. Towards the end of the weekend, he ended it. He said he liked me, but he wasn’t ready for a serious relationship. I tried to tell him neither was I, but it he had made up his mind to break-up. I played it cool and left. Next day he texted me asking how I was. We stayed in contact here and there but eventually we lost contact.
I would like to reach out and try reconnecting with him. Even though we dated briefly, I honestly don’t think there was anything wrong with us. Things moved too quicky and he felt scared. Do you think it’s possible to reconnect with someone you dated briefly?
Yangki’s Answer: Reconnecting with someone you dated briefly is possible, especially if things moved too quicky and they got scared.
In my experience, most people end a relationship with someone they’ve been dating for a very short period of time because: They saw something, heard something, thought or felt something. It made them make a pre-mature decision about the future of the relationship. The decision is based on limited information. They really don’t know you enough to make an informed decision.
They are not going to change their mind about you (more like who they think you are) if there is no opportunity for them to get to know you more.
Reach out and see if he is open to reconnecting. Don’t say you want to try things again until you see how he responds. If he responds positively, start by hanging out and getting to know each other in the way you were not able to because things ended too quickly. Make sure that you do not repeat the same mistakes of allowing things to move too quickly.
The approach you use to attract back someone you dated briefly (and weren’t in a relationship with) is different from one you use to attract back someone you were in a “relationship” with.
If you approach things from the “get your ex back” perspective, you will get a lot of unnecessary resistance because the other person does not consider themselves “an ex”, and may feel pressured to act like an ex.
They may not understand why you are saying the things you are saying, or doing what you are doing to attract back an ex because in reality there was never a break-up to begin with. Any move you try to “get them back”, only makes them pull away even further.
If you feel that your relationship ended too quickly, and you weren’t given a fair chance because your ex prematurely decided that you were not compatible, or that the relationship wasn’t working after only a few weeks or months of dating, I’m happy to work with you one-on-one to assess your chances, and guide you through the delicate nuances of Break-Up vs. A Bad Start.
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Everything you said in your post is the same situation Iam going through. We went out for 4 months and everything was really great. We talked about the future, where we would live and how many children we wanted etc. That’s why the breakup came as a complete shock to me. He says I’m an amazing woman but he feels that we need to take a break for a few weeks. I asked him if we would still contact each other and he said we will and we can also still go out but he’s not ready to be in a relationship right how.
4 months (at least for most people) is too soon to be talking about where to live and how many children to have. This is usually still the honeymoon period, and I’m almost sure you hadn’t even had you first major fight yet.
The fact that he does not want things to change very much seems to suggest that what he’s not ready for is not “a relationship” per se, but a “serious” relationship.
Stay in contact and hangout for a while and see how things play out.
Ex and I dated for 5 months then broke up because we were both unhappy and it didn’t make sense to continue the relationship. We both accepted it was over and started dating other people. I ended up with a guy who turned up to be verbally abusive and the relationship ended after 8 months. My ex was already in a committed relationship and engaged. We started secretly communicating and realized we still had feelings for each other and made a mistake giving us up too early in the relationship. We’ve been together for 4 years now.
Thanks for sharing your story. I hope what others can learn from it is that just because a relationship doesn’t work out doesn’t mean something is “wrong” with the other person (or you for that matter). Sometimes things just don’t work out.
If you had, like most people, been focused on he’s this or that and that’s why the relationship didn’t work out, you’d probably still blaming the break-up on each other’s “issues”.
Yangki, I think that if the relationship meant a lot to both people, its easier to stay in contact and try to talk things through. In my case, we dated for only 5 months and it was very apparent to both of us that it wasn’t going to work out in the long run. We told each other we’d stay in contact but that fizzled out on is own after only a couple of weeks. There really wasn’t much to hold us together.
You are right. How much the relationship meant to both people makes a difference.
But sometimes the relationship can even mean a lot to both people, but just like all things in life, it runs it’s natural course and dies naturally. Just because things fizzle out doesn’t mean that the relationship didn’t mean a lot to both people.
Dear Yangki, I now know what made him not want to be in a relationship with me. Only it is going to be a long journey of hard work to better myself in areas that I lacked in, dare I say, years. I don’t intend to try to attract him back until then. Sometimes I find myself feeling hopeless about the situation because of this.
I hope that after years he’ll still be available and/or interested. Even if he’s not, working to better yourself is always a good thing..
I can relate to Sarah. Not making my relationship work because I was too selfish is the biggest mistake I have ever made. Sometimes I think it’s for the best, what happened happened for a reason and probably for the best. But I have not stopped loving her.
The best advice I got about relationships is that they suck until you get yourself right and deal with your own personal stuff!
Yangki, another the reason advice sometimes does not work is because one or both sides give up on the relationship. We were together 3 years but failed at communication. We are both very sensitive people and always worried about hurting the other’s feelings. We only found out that we both had things about the other that kept bothering us, but for him it was too late to try to save the relationship. I tried very hard to but realized that I had hurt him too much. We still talk once in a while but agree that it’s best to remain good friends.
I’m sorry it didn’t work out for you. Take the lessons from this experience and learn from it. You also still have each other as friends, that’s a great thing… and who know what the future may bring. Please, please, I’m not trying to raise false hope here. I’m just stating that you just never know. Love has it’s reasons that even reason itself does not know.
Yangki, I really love your advice and how are you are trying to provide tools for men and women to get along and be happy together. I spend quite a bit of time reading articles and comments by both side, and wonder if there is ever any possibility for this happening. It seems to me that too many men hate women and too many women hate men.
I’m sure you are not talking about articles and comments on this blog, because we don’t welcome haters on either side here….(:
Like you, I like to read what others are saying on other sites and blogs, and I too have wondered about it sometimes. Fortunately for me, because I work with real people in the real world, I have real life evidence to show that men and women do get along and can be happy together. It’s not only possible, it is happening.
I have come to the conclusion that most men and women who come on the internet to post articles and comments about how the other gender is this or that are 1) lonely people who wish they were in a loving relationship or 2) frustrated because they can’t have what they deep inside long for.
Instead of looking inside and facing up to their own shortcomings, it’s easier to demonize a whole gender.