He reached out. How do I respond?
Nearly 5 months ago he dumped me over text, blindside. I begged (my biggest regret, NEVER do this) and he ignored every message. I am conflicted right now because I do miss him sometimes but I know the same pattern will repeat if I were to reopen things. I just don’t want to cause any more pain on his end with how I respond. Praying he doesn’t lurk this sub and see this so I will be deleting soon.
I do want to add, for anyone who is upset: if you were good to them, they do come back 99.9% of the time (sometimes after a rebound). I never thought i’d receive this text from him. I don’t want to give anyone false hope but this has been my experience so far.
Edit: I decided to reply. It was probably not the best response. I’ve known him for many years and just didn’t want to leave him wallowing in pain and guilt:
“I really appreciate you saying this. I know that it probably wasn’t easy to send. I never really thought you were as unaffected as you tried to seem. What happened between us feels far away now, but not insignificant to me.”