7 Biggest Mistakes People
Make When Trying to Get Their
Ex Back
1st Mistake: Professing Your Undying Love
This is the and extremely common mistake, and the very first mistake that most people make… I am extremely guilty of this mistake (all of them actually):
“How can we break up? I love you SO much!”
“You wouldn’t leave me if you only understood how much I need you!”
“My life will be miserable without you… Please don’t leave me!”
It is a common belief that love will conquer everything. This simply is not the case sometimes. I am not trying to be a downer or anything, but this is simply the truth.
You may love your ex incredibly, but for the relationship to work, your ex obviously has to love you back. Sometimes even just plain love is not enough. I will explain what I mean:
We have the “I care about you” love. This is the type of love you have for a friend or family member. It is not a romantic relationship type of love. It is not the type of love to give you a successful and joyful relationship.
Then we have the “I want to be with you” love. This is the love we want. It involves romance, excitement, as well as desire to be with someone. This is the romantic love that will bring people together, keep couples together, and get them back together after a break up.
This kind of love will keep people working on their relationship rather than walking away. This is where most of us need a little bit of help… rebuilding the “I want to be with you” love in your ex. It is very tough because there is no magic pill or button you can push to make them feel this way again.
And actually, the harder you try, the more it pushes them from wanting to feel this kind of love with you! You have to make your ex feel this love without letting them know that you are doing it. You can have an influence on how they react if you control what you do and say… which I understand, is easier said than done in this situation. It took me a long time to figure this out for myself.
2nd Mistake: Feeling Sorry for Yourself
What first attracted your ex to you? Do you remember? It could
be a variety of different things, but I can tell you what it was not: It was not you acting sad and depressed. In almost all cases you will not attract a lover by acting sad.
The exact opposite attitude is what attracts people… we want to be with someone that is positive, confident, and genuinely happy. The problem is that in this post break up state of mind, we convince ourselves that making our ex feel sorry for us will surely being them back.
It often causes us to do stupid things that we wouldn’t normally
do. If we can just show him/her how much pain they are causing us, then they will come back… not the case though.
We end up doing the exact opposite of what brought us together to begin with! We should be trying to make ourselves feel and look better, but we spend our time trying to make ourselves feel worse and look worse… whether intentional or not.
If you can attempt to look at it from an outsider’s perspective, you can very easily tell that this is absolutely not the correct way to go about things. Other than just making you feel worse, it will hurt your chances of ever getting back together. By acting like this, it just helps prove that they made the right choice to leave.
If you are acting like this, please stop immediately! And once again, I know it is much easier said than done, but it must be done. I have been there in your shoes before and I learned this the very hard way.
3rd Mistake: Bribery
You main objective is to get your ex back and rebuild the relationship that you once had. I have many times heard the saying, “All is fair in love and war.” That is not true though.
Using anything at all to bribe, or force your ex to get back with you in not a good idea. Not only is it just not the type of relationship you want, it will piss your ex off.
These tactics backfire much more than they succeed.
Your ex will most likely see exactly what you are trying to pull, and it will make it MUCH harder to make some headway.
This is giving them ammunition to fire back at you, and reason not to get back with you.
Let’s say you were successful in getting them back using these tactics though. Your relationship would not be a good one. There will always be a resentment from them to you because of them feeling forced or trapped back into the relationship.
The type of relationship we are looking for cannot be built on the basis of bad tactics. This next part may hurt if you fit it, but it is the truth: If you have been using a manipulative tactic you seriously need to examine yourself and your feelings for
your ex. If you are willing to treat them badly, how much do you really care about them? If you have no trouble resorting to unfair tactics, they may be better off without you.
If you have been using these negative tactics, my best suggestion for you is to get a copy of The Magic of Making Up. It has some absolutely amazing tips that will help you get your shoulders on straight in no time at all.
4th Mistake: Rationalizing, Assuring, and Debating
Words can be very persuasive when convincing us to do something that we already want to do. We can go along with it without any resistance. If we are being persuaded into doing something we do not want to do, it usually sets us more in our ways AGAINST whatever is being said.
Trying to assure your ex that they want to get back to you is simply trying to assure them they want to do something that they already decided they didn’t want to do..
As you come up with an argument to assure your ex that they made the wrong decision, they will be coming up with counters to everything you suggest. This means they are going to be justifying their decision, and the more they say it, the more they feel it.
It is like pulling a donkey on a rope: The harder you pull, the more they just work against you and pull the other way. You are helping to set their reasons for the breakup into stone by making them repeat it.
It does seem like a perfectly good and reasonable thing to do. Surely they will see it your way if you just explain it more clearly to them… but it just does not work like that.
5th Mistake: “I really have changed”
We are creatures of habit. It is said all the time. Nobody expects us to become a completely new person over night. We won’t wake up in the morning with completely different feelings and attitudes. The person you are today is most likely the exact same person you will be tomorrow.
Telling your ex that you are a changed person and you will be different this time, is completely against everything we have ever known. Would you believe someone you know very well that came up to you one day and told you how completely different they are in a matter of hours?
When you say you have changed, it means you are going to try to be different in the future. It may actually be very easy to be different right now, but it is tough to keep it up. It is actually a promise that you will attempt to do something in the future, not a change right now as you are claiming.
I am not saying that you can not change at all. Over time you can change, but drastic changes do not happen over night. Do not tell your ex how you are different… let them see it in the way you act and hear it in the way you talk.
6th Mistake: Egos
It is embarrassed to be on the receiving end of a break up.
It feels as if they are saying to you, “I can do better than you; you are not good enough for me.” That is a real slap in the face. It makes sense that this would hurt our pride.
The one that feels insulted here is hostile and will quite possibly ruin their chance for making up because they feel like they were wronged. It is common to think, “My ex hurt me, they should be the one to fix this, not me.”
The steps to getting their ex back can be blocked by this hostility that has formed and the sense that they will be embarrassed more if they try to get their ex back.
A reason that the egos get in the way is that people feel like in order to get their ex back they will have to beg and get down on their knees and give up all of their pride.
By this point in the report, you know that this stuff is not only unnecessary, it is a bad idea all around. It is an example of what we talked about earlier that will just push them farther away from you.
7th Mistake: Wishful Thinking
In the movies we hear about “If you love something, let it go” and then they always come back on their own.
It’s very comforting to believe that fate has something in store for us; I just know I am going to win the lottery, so I don’t need to get a job. But the movies are wrong; we create our own future and our own success. Of course, sometimes it is just as Forrest Gump said, “Sh*t happens,” but most of the time it happens because of something else… not spontaneously. If you really do want to get your ex back, you are going to have to make it happen. But do NOT do the first things that come to mind, which I have just outlined for you.
You have to make them want you enough that the reasons for the breakup are insignificant and do not matter at all anymore.
Your role in causing your ex to change their thinking is still going to be somewhat passive. You are not going to directly change their mind, but indirectly.
You are not going to work on your ex, you are going to work on yourself. You will make yourself become a better person, and your ex will realize it and follow right along. If people decide something on their own, even if they had help in deciding it, they are much more apt to stick with their decision.
If you can not wait for me to write you again, then I suggest you have a look at The Magic of Making Up. I can not stress how much this guide has helped me and countless others. It has literally saved many people’s lives, and I would love to see it help you too!
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