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Here's a neat article by Evan Marc Katz - America's Leading Dating Expert.

I never say never!

I may win the lottery. I may get divorced. I may get pancreatic cancer and be gone before I’m 50.

I think all of these things are exceedingly unlikely, but they’re possible.

So what do we know about men who broke up with you in the past and are coming back for more?

    People are selfish.They do what’s right for themselves first and tend to sort of hope that they’re not hurting you in the process. Anyone who claims not to be selfish probably doesn’t have a clear-eyed view of the world. It’s commonsense to be selfish. To maximize your needs, wants and desires. It doesn’t mean you’re unethical. It just means you’re pursuing your own happiness.

    People are shortsighted. We act! We react! We make the decision that makes sense at the time!

Sometimes it means marrying the wrong person because you’re 27 and “in love”. Sometimes it means bailing on the right person because you’re “not ready” to settle down.

    People grow up. I don’t know a single person who looks back 5 years and sees the same exact person. I knew a lot more at 30 than I did at 25. I knew a lot more at 35 than I did at 30. And, on the cusp of 40, I know a lot more than I did 5 years ago, when I was five months into dating my wife.

    People have regrets. Some folks regret things that they did – breaking up with an amazing woman. Leaving a comfortable job for a more exciting opportunity that didn’t pan out. Some folks regret things that they didn’t do. Try writing that novel. Asking out that girl. I try to live my life with no regrets, but even the best of us have moments of “what if?”

Despite the many heartening things I said above, which may sway you to think that you may want to give one of your exes a shot, I’m still skeptical.

Because even though people regret, change, and evolve, at the end of the day, there are some things that don’t change.

Character rarely changes. A cheater is usually going to be a cheater. A liar is usually going to be a liar. A poor communicator is usually going to be a poor communicator. It’s not that it’s impossible for people, through life experience and therapy, to improve on various facets of their life – it’s that it’s a pretty risky crapshoot to consider that the disappointing man in your past has suddenly morphed himself into someone consistent and trustworthy.

Of COURSE he’s going to say he changed. His intentions may be 100% pure. But that guy is still high-risk.

Why?

Because he’s already burned you, that’s why!

He dumped you. He hurt you. He went away.

And now that his life is not where he wants it to be… now that he’s feeling lonely and vulnerable… now that he’s going through his mid-life crisis and can’t seem to pull off hitting on 26-year-olds at work…

Now he comes crawling back, begging for another chance.

Is he sincere? Probably.

Is he a good bet? Probably not.

He’s the same guy who dumped you before. He’s just a lot weaker and needier right now, because of his circumstances.

Listen, I know why it might be tempting to rekindle an old flame with the devil that you know, but I’d strongly lean towards the one you don’t know.

Decline contact with your exes, start with a clean slate, and trust that the right guy – the one who will be with you ‘til the day you die – is not going to dump you the way the other men did.

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