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    Second Chance Letter - after No contact rule help

    I have this post in "Love advice" as well, but was just wondering from a females point of view in this thread.

    It's been 2 and a half weeks since we made the no contact. I told her I would wait for her to contact me when she is ready. However, I recently (tonight) found out that she might be moving 3 hours away to go to college this fall (where her brother lives).
    I figure I need to make contact if there is any chance of stopping her or talking to her, before it's too late.

    Originally I was going to write a short text : ------"Hey, I was just wondering how you have been? I'd like to talk to you. If you'd be up for it, that'd be great :-) Life has been pretty good. How are things?"------ (possibly without the "life has been pretty good part."

    But then a friend looked up some tips and was told I should write a handwritten letter, keeping it short. I was also going to include this flashcard in it from before we started dating. It was from when we worked together as servers (where we first met and fell inlove) and we wanted an excuse to talk to eachother more and be close, so we would roll silverware together form the same bin, and so I would make a flashcard that had our names on it with something cute.

    I'm not sure what all to write in the letter, but keeping it short. I was told I shouldnt say all my feelings, but rather, just be happy and ask how she is and how things are going. And maybe tell her some stuff I've been doing. And if I should include that flashcard or not (or possibly a movie ticket from us).

    Another issue, is how am I supposed to get this to her?

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    Also, someone told me to say sorry (only once, no more than that) and im not sure if i should just say "I'm sorry" or go into detail at all, or something like "I'm sorry for letting the bad from my past relationship cloud my judment and actions and mess up what was beautiful." etc.

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    What is the context of your break-up ie who broke it off, how long were you together, reason for it ending etc?
    Some people are drains and some are radiators... Keep clear of the drains and hug the radiators!

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    Yeah, if you start another thread, it's a good idea to put a summary of what went on. We don't have time to search for your other thread.

    Next, women like to hear an apology, and a reason why the boyfriend is apologizing. So the women know the guy understands what he did wrong. Even if you feel you didn't do anything wrong, it's a good idea to apologize to open the lines of communication.

    But if she is making you guess why she is offended, then she is the one with the problem, and poor communication. (Teens often do this, at least when I was a teen.) Men are not mind-readers and women shouldn't treat us as such.

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    She broke it off. She wanted space because i was becoming clingy when she developed a crush on her friend that she had when she was in high school, and came back into her life. The "crush" feeling went away, but i was still paranoid and messed up from my ex fiancee who cheated on me with at least (for a fact) 4 different guys, 1-2 of them every month i was at drill with the Marines.
    My now ex girlfriend went on vacation to germany where she was for 2 weeks and wanted to use that time as space to miss me, etc. But I wanted to fix things for when she got home, so i needed some answers while she was there, from her. and it backfired. It only made her resent me for ruining her vacation since she was upset for most of it, and she broke it off when she got back.
    We were together for 10 months.
    She originally said she wanted a break so hopefully we can get back together at some point. Then i was freaking out a little bit one night and was trying to talk to her about this all and it pushed her away and so the next day i decided a no contact rule was the only way to hopefully save us. So o met up with her for 15 minutes and she was pissed off at me from the night before and i told her im sorry and to make the no contact rule, etc.

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