Registered in Ireland: I broke up with my boyfriend six months ago. After two years together, we were fighting all the time and realised we wanted very different things from life and our relationship. So we split by mutual agreement. The trouble is, we keep ending up in bed together. Splitting up is always hard. When a break-up simply reflects the fact that the bad bits of the relationship have started to outweigh the good bits, it is, arguably, a little less painful, but it can be a lot more complicated. If there is no one waiting in the wings for either person, the door is left slightly ajar, so when you feel sad, lonely and reflective, as you are bound to at times, it is all too easy to drink and dial.

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By Chris Seiter. I want to give you a clear and detailed path on how you should react immediately after having sex with your ex. I like to keep things super simple. Well, I deal with exes for a living weird job I know and in most of the cases I find that after exes sleep with you they slowly fall away or you end up in a friends with benefits situation which can really jumble your emotions. Yesterday I was on a coaching call with a client and she had told me that a few days ago she went on a date with her ex and things got a little too romantic and they ended up having sex. Before we went on our date and slept together he was so engaged during conversations with me and now he avoids me like the plague. You see, in that video I talk about how typically a relationship will contain two types of people,. That if you get a pusher and a puller together the relationship is bound to snap like a rubber band,. For now we are going to be looking at one specific thing and that is how you are going to be perceived after you have sex with your ex. This is especially true if there are preconceived notions at work.
2. “I didn’t feel the passion”
Breaking up is never easy. In the immediate aftermath, you may never want to set eyes on your ex again. Here's what eight women have to say about what it was like having sex with an ex.
Article after article argues that it's a bad idea—not only will it make it harder for you to move on, these stories argue, but it can also be emotionally exhausting and traumatizing. Is that really the case, though? Maybe not, according to new research on the subject, which suggests that ex-sex might actually help us more than it hurts. Before we get into the effects of having sex with an ex, it may surprise you to learn that this behavior is actually quite common.