Weigh Up What To Do

Not all breakups should end in reconciliation. This stage is about honesty.

Do you really want them back — or do you want to stop feeling like this, and they're the only thing you can think of that would fix it? Those aren't the same question, and it's worth knowing which one you're actually asking.

And the one nobody in this category asks: should you? Not can you. Should you. Sometimes the honest answer is no. If that's the answer here, you're better off knowing it now than in a year.

No one can weigh this for you. These guides are for weighing it.

Start with Should You Get Back Together With Your Ex? — it's the question this stage exists to answer, and everything else here is downstream of it.