Why do some moran exes want to get back with you years later when you had an unhappy ending?

[raccoon]

I've had two to try this with me. No way!

What was it that genius said, "Fool me one, shame on me, fool me twice, won't get fooled again?"

If it didn't work out the first time, why would anyone think it would the second time? :shrug:

edited for typo

[Robb]

1. People in conflict

...find it easier, and possibly more comforting, to look back rather than forward.

The uncertainty of the future puts serious rose-colored glasses on one's views of the past.

Your instincts in this matter are spot on. ;)

[texas1928]

2. I had a girlfriend when I was a senior in high school...

She had graduated the year before. She had not contacted me for about a month and a half, and we went to a football game ( I was in the band) on Friday night, and she shows up with another guy. She won't look at me and I sent a friend to get my high school ring back and she would not give it to him. So after the game my dad went and got my ring back from her. That was the end of our relationship.

Well a year later, I am home from college for a weekend, and I get a phone call from her. She likes my new truck I had just bought and wants me to take her out in it. I lost it on her. I let her have all the things I wanted to say that night at the football game come out. She got the picture and never called me again.

[BlueIris]

3. Some people really are just that pathetic, and never learn from their mistakes.

[IndianaJones]

4. I had a girlfriend that shot me with rocksalt when I tried to take some corn...

from her dads farm. Then she tried to apologize and say she couldn't tell it was me in the dark.

[originalpckelly]

5. What were you doing taking corn?

I don't know, this may have a sad answer, but it sounds a little weird.

[IndianaJones]

6. It was good sweet corn and everyone did it. nt.

[cboy4]

9. OMFG. I can't breathe

:rofl:

[IndianaJones]

13. dude...don't laugh at me. nt

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

7. My experience is a bit different

Met a guy in my early 20s. He's 3 years younger than me. So he was immature and naive. We dated and then had a major breakup; he thought I only wanted to marry him to get a green card.

Anyway, here we are 10 years later, we are in love and couldn't be happier. Of course, we are now in our 30s and a lot more mature. He wishes I had beaten him with a stick then.

[philosophie_en_rose]

8. They remember things differently than you do.

On your end, they're asshats that you're better without. On theirs, you're a great person and who knows why it didn't work out?

[caty]

10. One of my favorite quotes.....

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them". Maya Angelou

[Left Is Write]

11. Because the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know.

[unpossibles]

12. it depends

sometimes the timing was just wrong, especially in the case of dating someone when you were young then running into each other as adults. That, to me is fairly forgivable, as most people aren't the same person as they were in their teens/early twenties.

Also, I have had more than one ex girlfriend who broke up with me tell me later that they made a huge mistake. Problem is, I can be friends with them, but once I am forced to get over someone, I refuse to become romantically attached to them ever again. I don't hold a grudge, and I will forgive almost anything, but won't forget or be naive about it either.

[idgiehkt]

14. lol, my ex called the other day

I'd shut down my e-mail so she can't contact me.

When she's between girlfriends she will call me and tell me she regrets our break up...it always evolves into her placing the blame for it on me though. I think she is just terrified of being alone or something.

[Lethe]

15. i dunno, I think people can change...especially after a bit of time passes

you know, shit happens, people do dumb things.......if people have really changed and are sorry about things in the past, I don't see why it couldn't work out.

At the same time, nobody should just be totally gullible about it either.