Has anybody here broken up with their SO and managed to successfully restore you relationship?

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Garet Jax
Yes. Once.

Back in high school, still didn't work out since we were incompatible.

been there, done that, but somehow I didn't get a tshirt.

 

[Sqube]

Generally speaking, there's a reason that you broke up.

Keep that in mind when you try to get back with the same person.

 

[Greenman]

The wife and I separated for 6 years, never divorced in all that time. One day she called and said ?sorry I ruined your life, I?ll never do it again, let?s get back together?.
I moved back in the next week.

So yeah, sometimes it really does work out.

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: dullard
GF and I broke up after 3 years. GF found a group of friends, which included some boys, and she started liking one of the boys in that group. She didn't want to break up with me, but wanted to also try dating someone else. I was devistated, and couldn't handle it, so I broke up with her.

I couldn't get over her (how often does a computer nerd date someone who could be a model, who likes football, who is a lot of fun, and who like him back). We tried to remain friends. She found out that the other boys were jerks (and represented everything she hated), and came back to me.

WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE.

Two years later, I thought it was just a fling because we were young (the break up was her senior year in high school) and because she was scared of the marriage talk. So I stupidly married her.

3 years into the marriage, she "dates" another guy. Marriage is strained almost to the breaking point, but we barely patched it over when she breaks up with him. 3 years later she "dates" another and I file for divorce. I'm quite happy now that I'm divorced.

Don't ever, ever consider getting back together. Once you are broken up, it is done. The one good thing you two did was to break up - don't ever forget that.

I'm now 13 months into a much better woman. She treats me well, values the things that I value, is quite intelligent, works hard, and is attractive enough.

in the end, it seems that "works hard" is probably one of best traits in a woman.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Greenman
The wife and I separated for 6 years, never divorced in all that time. One day she called and said ?sorry I ruined your life, I?ll never do it again, let?s get back together?.
I moved back in the next week.

So yeah, sometimes it really does work out.

How long has that been working for?

 

[Bryophyte]

Dated a guy in high school and ended up not speaking to him for about 9 years after we went our separate ways. Got married less than 6 months from our first date after all that time, and have been married for 12 years now.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: Chrono
well? if so, please detail what had happened.

eh.. not the same.. she stopped swallowing :Q

 

[OVerLoRDI]

The girl I'm dating currently. We got together, broke up, got back together, broke up again. Ran into each other again and got back together been dating for almost a year now.

 

[PowderBB3D]

I dated a girl for about 6 months and then eventually broke it off with here. It was an interesting situation - I think I was just too young for a serious relationship, and I felt somewhat pressured not by her specifically but by the fact that I was in a comitted situation that I wasn't ready for. So I ended it.

7 months later I found out that she was still on friendly terms with my parents, and that my parents had kept up correspondance with her. This bothered me greatly as I've been one who, when something is in the past, feels it absolutely should stay there. Compound this with the fact I'd not been informed about this at all for more than half a year and you can understand why I angrily called my mom up to complain.

Apparently they leaked this to her, and she still had my number so she called me. Our first phone conversation went poorly, but a few weeks later I called her again to see what was up. Long story short, we ended up getting back together and still remain so - that was 2 years ago.