ravfour4 Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 There's a difference between knowing more facts about a person than someone else and truly understanding their emotional state (and taking the time to check-in on it on an ongoing and consistent basis). For anyone that gets broken up with, they almost certainly fall into the first bucket, but not the second. Sure, I know my ex better than anyone and for the most part can read her like a book - although amid all this crap I listened to her words rather than my intuition - stupidly, but if I had really understood her emotional state, I would have known what she needed and what she felt she was lacking. Only after the break-up did I realize, because before that I was fed up with her and stopped caring about her emotional state because she wasn't giving a **** about mine. I wasn't putting up with any **** back then like I constantly have been lately trying to get her back. If he knew her so well, he would have known there was an issue and could have proactively fixed it. If they jump to a rebound they assume the rebound "knows" them better because the ex is open about their feelings to them and therefore the rebound obviously understands their current emotional state, plus they probably vent about the past relationship and get a bunch of BS sympathy. Link to post Share on other sites
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