ANSWERS: 78
  • Little to none. When we first broke up (after having dated for 1.5 years), I was shocked at how quickly I got over the demise of our relationship, and at how well I re-adjusted to single life. I took as many positives out of the experience as I could, and simply moved forward with life. Of course, a large part of why we broke up was due to the fact that he had cheated on me with a 34 year old mother of three, not once, not twice, but repeatedly. I daresay that that particular indiscretion had a lot to do with how quickly I moved on ;)
  • If anyone tells you NEVER there is something wrong. If your ex was is your life for any lenght of time, there is going to be numerous memories, even if they are bad they are still memories. These memories will at different times pop up in your head whether you want them or not, you can not help it. Atleast that is my experience, if anyone has a way of erasing memories that you don't let me know.
  • Constantly and we broke up 3 and 1/2 months ago. It sucks.
  • Alot, even though we've been divorced three years. He was my One true love.
  • Still flashes through my mind when I hear sirens or someone pounds really loudly on the door
  • As little as POSSIBLE -- NONE - YUCKY
  • Well between my ex husband and my present husband I dated a guy for 81/2 years...so I consider him a ex even though we were never married. Its been almost 5 years since our breakup but I find myself thinking about him often. I still consider him a friend even though he broke my heart.
  • I've been married almost 20yrs. (married at 19) so I can't even remember the names of them, so I never think about them. I would think if your married or in a serious relatioship and you still have thoughts about an ex. then you have no chance, because it's hard enough having a relationship between two adults, then throw in a person only one knows they are there.
  • Only when I have to!
  • I was in a great relationship that ended on good terms not bad...It has been since january, and i still think of him almost everyday. I have been out with another guy since then hoping that he would fill the void, and those days turn into weeks but then he contacted me to give my an update on what was going on with him. Those weeks reverted back to days. I am hopeless!!
  • i still think about my most recent ex 24 /7 , he has given me hope that we may get back together , but still yet he thinks about me too. and iam so confused . there is no hope for me.
  • I was with my ex for about six months. I found out she was still seeing her ex that she couldn't get over. The whole time she was with me it was a total lie. I've never felt so used and unappreciated in my life. While I gave her shelter and everything else she was still sleeping with him. Right after the break up I couldn't stop thinking of her. Since then I have met a wonderful woman that totally adores me and finally again I can trust with my heart. This is what's allowed me to get over the hump. I know this question was directed to the ladies but I couldn't resist considering the heartbreak I indured.
  • Alot especially since I have no one, and I miss spending quality time with a man.
  • We broke up two months ago. He was my boyfried of 9 months. I think about him every day. Some days I miss him...some days I hate him...but it seems that every day I still love him.
  • my ex ex (my 1st real love).. every moment of everyday :( *sigh*
  • Once a year when he comes to visit my son who lives across the street from me. Kind of hard to ignore him.
  • she broke up with me a month ago. we were together almost 4 years. i think about her every day, even when i'm trying really hard not to.
  • I have/had an ex who died in a tragic way(this last feb)...I had moved on and so had he..we parted in a good way after 6 years...but now that hes gone i sometimes think of him and feel soso bad...
  • If you love someone and things go wrong, why would that mean that you would never think of them again? Love can't be turned off or burned away. Posting Comment... I think of him almost everyday, even though I haved other men since,
  • Love lingers even after a relationship ends. I have never known of a breakup that was equal to both parties. One is more hurt than the other. If only there was a way to even the scales. Than the offending party would feel the pain and maybe he/she would have tried harder to work thing out in the first place. The book of Lonely Hearts has no ending. Alas.
  • Every day. We were together over 20 years and I just don't seem to be able to get him out of my head.
  • Hardly ever, we were together three years.
  • I still think about mine,I did leave him but the problems in that he updates me on his new relationship, this is much worse and Ive told him not to contact me. We tried for kids & he even told me he's marrying after a six month relationship to have children. How low can you get..
  • i always think about him and wish we were stil together! i hate knowin hes with someone else and im the one hu broke it off!!! lol.... oh well we exes for a reason believe me...
  • i think about him quite often - every few days. he was the love of my life, still don't understand what happened but i guess i'll never know!!
  • The most recent ex I think of all the time, I dated him while seperated from my husband and figured I needed to give my marriage a chance for my kids sake, but since my husband cheated on me (the reason for the seperation) I have a hard time letting go of my ex because he was so wonderful and I wonder everyday if I am making a mistake by giving my husband the chance to mess up again instead of being with the other guy who never did anything wrong and loved me like I have never been loved before. It is the dilema I call my life.
  • Thank You,you just reminded me to call the jerk. He owes me child support that I will never see.
  • 2 times a week
  • 24/7 and is still killing me..
  • um not often. he calls sometimes but i never answer. I'm in a relationship and have been for over a year and a half
  • I think about my ex each and every time I'm having a great time with my new boyfriend and I think - "Boy am I glad we broke up!"
  • More often than i would like to. if i catch a glimpse of king of the hill or talk to my brother i think of him. he is soooo much like hank hill (doesnt look like him tho) and my brother and he r housemates cuz my brother wont get his own apartment. yeah talk about weird.
  • Only when I eat beans which give me gas which causes me to think of hot air which he was full of - so, not too often!
  • well I think about him 24/ 7 we broke up before new years, and I am trying to hold myself from calling him, tomorrow is his Bday, but he already told me he dont love me, and he laredy has some one else. His mother called me yesterday inviting me to a surprise party they are having for him, to take our 1 1/s son over ,, but I am gonna feel so bad if I go and his girlfriend is there, so I rather not go.... do u think i am doing wrong for not taking my son for his daddy b-day,, is just I know some drama might be going down, so I rather not go..
  • Every time I see road kill!
  • my x was my boyfriend over 3 years ago so not as much maybe once a month maybe slightly more, uf were talking about past bdays or xmas' then he would come up in convasation
  • ALL the TIME!!! We were together for 2 years and have been froken up for a year...sad to say I still love him and we tried for a week in November to work it out, but he started talking to someone else b/c he thought I was dating his friend. I broke up with him for a little space before we got married, but I still think of him constantly. I still love him, he was and is my everything and without my heart I still have this void in my soul. The ultimate sad part is no matter how i try not to think of him we now work together again and I have to see and talk to him and he constantly looks at photos of his new girl and talks and texts her all day in my presence...love stinks!
  • Rarely. Only if something sparks my memory (like a commercial on TV or a song on the radio). I'm so consumed in my relationship now that I can't be bothered with the past.
  • pretty much never, i think about my foreign summer fling more often than my last ex .. lol
  • Frequently, but not by choice. Everytime I have had to go through a background check, I have no choice but to think of him. Grrrrrrrr. I also think of him when a good AB question about an "ex" comes up. I only have one ex husband and he is worth a few laughs :)
  • Depends which ex.. Husband, not very often, last ex lover, every time my brain is not occupied with something else.
  • not much anymore.
  • well when we first broke up, all the time. i would think of what i was missing, if i could have done something different to keep us together, but after a while i relized he was a jerk and i didnt care anymore about im. lol
  • I feel the same way, always depressed about it. I want him back sooobad.
  • I rarely think of them. :|
  • Only when he misses a maintenance payment.. and i think of him with disgust.
  • every single morning. i wake up and wonder whether things worked out for him. its like a habit...sometimes it takes me a long time to stop thinking and occasionally i cry but then i continue my day and the next morning there he is again... in my thoughts!
  • Rarely
  • quite a lot this past week......he killed himself a week ago.......we've been separated for about 8 yrs now with 2 kids............sad.......
  • every time some question on AB pops up and asks me something about an ex...seriously...that's the only time. Funny thing it's like every day because there are always questions posted about ex's
  • when I m happy with my man...never...but lately while we are having problems everyday...and it doesn't help that I found out he got a myspace account
  • I try not to. Thanks a lot for reminding me! Grrr
  • We were married a long time so sometimes something will trigger a memory of him and it always make me appreciate my new husband because he is nothing like my ex.
  • I really don't think about him. I only tolerate him because of the kids. I divorced him because he had a relationship with a 15 year old girl.
  • As little as possible. She brought her "boyfriend" to my house while I was away on deployment.
  • I try not to but if he would quit calling me every couple of weeks i could!
  • I often think I wish he was dead.
  • Mmm I think about him if I see a photo, or if someone brings him up in conversation, but otherwise I don't really think about him at all. I don't like to dwell on things.
  • Not to often... we never really had a great relationship. Plus I moved on before the relationship was offically over. I love my new boyfriend and although we've only been together for 9 months I just know that he is the one I want to spend the rest of my life with. He completes everything I am not and makes me feel like the most beautiful person in the world. I don't know what I'd do with out him. My ex on the other hand was a complete loser, called me horrible things and the three years we were together was an utter waste of my time. You know that you really love someone when you don't have to think whether you do or not. You just know!
  • Not much. But I do wonder if I left him all screwed up sometimes.
  • I think about him almost once a day. It's getting close to a year since we broke up. He was just so much fun. I can't get his cute mannerisms and his voice out of my head. He was a great cook and I think of him at the grocery store. Some days are worse that others and today has been difficult.
  • very rarely .. I think of my psychopath ex only when I actually see him around. My man gets all of me - body, soul AND mind haha !
  • Every freaking day... We are close friends but have both moved on and gotton married. Still there is that "what if" that pops in and out of my mind.
  • they never really cross my mind anymore.
  • I think it really depends on how nice the relationship was, but personally, I don't think about my exs. All my Exs live in Texas.
  • Every other second. I know he is over me though.
  • not too often. I'm happy in my relationship now.
  • I think about my ex often, since we just broke up a week ago. But I don't really miss him, he cheated on me repeatedly and told me I was overreacting when I kicked him out the door. But I'm sure it won't be long until I don't think about him at all.
  • when i lie on my bed at night or when people talk about him or when i see him but that's about it
  • Like 90% of the time. It's so hard.
  • I think about him 90% of the time. He ruined about two years of my life, and I don't know how many more to come. I'm in therapy. Anyone who has some advice about what I did wrong or what I'm doing wrong can come walk in my shoes.
  • I think about him ALOT, I haven't talked to or seen him for 14 years, then one day we found each other online (that was May of this year) and we've been speaking/IMing ever since, but even before we connected again, I always thought about him, we were highschool sweethearts, then got together again in our early 20's, then I met my husband and we never spoke again. it's kind of messing with my head (as I am married with children), I don't reccomend it.
  • Everytime I see a roach
  • i think about one in particular everyday, whether or not he thinks about me is another question.. he's probably seeing someone, they all do in this situation
  • I think about him all the time. I know he is at work right now. I know he will be going home in the morning to his place. he;ll shower, check his email, and go to bed and get up at around 3 pm(he works nights). That is horrible of me.
  • Wow. Even though I broke up with him for good reasoning. Number one, being I could never see myself marrying him one day, I still think ab him everyday. There's a lot of positives ab being single. It's just, I can't forget ab him. I wish i could
  • Never. That is why he is my ex.
  • Not a lot because if i break up with him than i don't like him anymore but if he breaks up with me and i loved him heaps than i would with think of him heaps

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