After taking a break from your ex and then deciding that now is the time to try texting them, you may find yourself in a dilemma. It’s hard enough trying to figure out what to say in those first few texts to your ex. But that is not his only problem.
What happens when your ex responds? What do you say then? How do you respond to his answer?
Hopefully, you were careful with the first few texts you sent. After all, you shouldn’t be trying to get your ex back from the start.
Instead, you simply want to open the lines of communication and give your ex a chance to start a conversation, but only if he or she wants to. Your first few texts should never pressure your ex into responding.
So let’s say you did that and feel a nice text “through the arc” to get things rolling. Maybe it was something like, “I caught myself thinking of you when I heard that Adele song you love. I hope you’re doing well.”
Now it’s a waiting game. How will your ex respond? There are 4 possible scenarios.
1.) No response at all
2.) A neutral response
3.) A positive response
4.) A negative answer
If you don’t get any response, that’s fine. Do not worry about that. Your ex may not be ready to hear from you. Wait a few days or a week, and then try again with another text message variation. Whatever you do, don’t start sending them message after message asking why they aren’t responding to you.
A neutral response is something like “Thanks” or “I’m fine, thanks. You?” If your ex responds like this, you might be tempted to reply and have a long conversation with him. But you shouldn’t. Instead, he responds in a friendly but equally neutral manner and ends the conversation.
For example, “I’m fine. Hey, I have to go, but it’s nice to hear from you. Goodbye for now.”
Chances are you won’t get a super positive response unless you broke up with your ex and he’s excited to hear from you because he wasn’t ready for the relationship to end. If he broke up with you, he may have also realized that he made a mistake and therefore he may be very happy to hear from you.
Again, don’t get into a long conversation. Treat this as a neutral response. Respond that you’re doing great, it was great to hear from them, but you have to go, and then end the conversation. This will make them miss you and yearn for you even more.
Lastly, if you get an extremely negative response from your ex, then you need to give it more time. In this case, don’t text them again for several weeks. If he says something like “I’m still really hurt and I don’t really want to talk to you right now,” just say something like “I’m sorry. I totally get it. I hope you’re okay.”
No matter what response you get from your ex, always be the first to end the conversation and resist the urge to go into a long drawn out conversation. It’s extremely hard to resist the urge to talk to them more, especially when you get a positive response, but you’ll put yourself in a much better position to win them back if you keep them wanting more.
