“So when you think you’re missing me you better keep it to yourself. You better put down your phone and you better remember you’re the one who fucked this up, you’re the one who deserves to suffer and the one who should miss me like hell.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’ll never answer your texts, I’ll never follow you again on social media, I’ll never reach out to you when I’m missing you like hell because you don’t deserve me. You proved to me that you don’t deserve me, especially when I gave you nothing but all the love in my heart.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s never worth it. It’s never worth being the one who breaks first. It’s never worth being the one waiting. You’re stronger than that. You’re not the one who waits around, but the one who doesn’t even notice when he texted. You’re the one in control, the one who doesn’t need his vacuous responses…”— Lauren Martin, elitedaily.com
“Do not text him. No, not even one simple ‘hi.’ What are you going to get out that? Do you really care about how he’s doing or what he’s up to? Do you really want to talk about the weather or what sports game he’s watching? Do you really think he’s going to respond with what you want to hear?”— Lauren Martin, elitedaily.com
“I don’t want to say something I’ll regret. When I delete my ex from social media, it’s my way of walking away.”— Rosie Kelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s extremely hard to get over someone you dated and dedicated a good chunk of your life to. It’s hard enough to run into them in person, but having to see their face on every app you open is one hundred times worse.”— Rosie Kelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“Delete his number. Stare at your phone for a minute to let it sink in that you won’t be reaching out to him on your toughest nights and that he won’t be the one to comfort you.”— Molly Burford, thoughtcatalog.com
“Put your phone down. Walk away from it all for a while. Feel the distinct mixture of sadness and freedom pumping through your veins, the feeling that only comes with the end of something painful and the beginning of something more.”— Molly Burford, thoughtcatalog.com
“Remove the old texts from your phone, the messages that gave you hope, that made you believe that the two of you could be something. Delete them all.”— Molly Burford, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s okay to want to text them. But don’t follow through with it. It’ll just further postpone the healing time that your heart needs to go through before it’s ready to open itself back up.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“The reason you want to text them right now is probably not because you feel, deep down, that they are the one. The reason you want to text them is something else – loneliness, lack of closure, boredom, a sense of being lost, perhaps the feeling that everyone around you is settling down and you don’t…”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sending them a text is not going to fix that emptiness inside you tonight. It may be temporarily exciting or helpful or healing. But if you know, deep down, that they’re not the one, sending that text will always be just a bandaid, never a solution.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“She won’t text you, because it won’t do her any good. It’ll only give you the opportunity to hurt her again.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“She doesn’t need to text you, because she has self-respect. Self-esteem. Self-love. And that’s all she really needs.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“She refuses to text you, because you haven’t been texting her. And in her mind, that means that you haven’t been thinking about her at all.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Your phone beeps and you shouldn’t care. Your phone beeps and you should probably put it on silent.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don’t text him. Because that means undoing all the getting over him you have done.”— Jenifer Chong, thoughtcatalog.com