The Importance of Staying in Contact With Your Ex

Staying in contact with your ex can be a buffer against experiencing that loss and against fully experiencing that because it can allow you to live with the illusion that we're on good terms like we still talk to each other. In some ways it's I mean it's unbelievably painful but in some ways it makes it easier to just be like I don't talk to that person anymore. "I'm interested to hear your thoughts on this feeling of like when you think about the good times like what was it all for if it wasn't going to work out"