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4 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Delete Your Ex’s Number
It’ll only worsen your pain
While I have never actually been in a relationship, I’ve had more than a fair share of heartbreak. Unrequited love is all I’ve ever known, which makes this the perfect article for me to write. Perhaps better than anyone else, I understand exactly the kind of anger, resentment, sadness, desperation, and frustration that surges through your veins when a once treasured association meets an ugly end.
Your first instinct is, in the interest of self-preservation, to delete the number of the person who broke your heart. If you don’t, you just know that you’ll contact them in a moment of weakness. To spare yourself the pain, that number has to go. That’s just the way it has to be.
Well, not necessarily.
Below, I shall list the top four reasons that you should keep that number with you.
1. Closure is important
I first fell in love when I was 14; which, now, at 21, feels silly. What does a 14-year old know about love? Still, back then, things were intense. I met her at a bad time in my life, and she helped me through it. In the beginning, Zorina (yeah, that’s not her real name) and I were simply friends, but as time went on, I developed feelings for her. But, as is the story of…
