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There are a few guarantees in life: birth, death, and that your exes will text you. They can’t not do it. It’s a compulsion. In my experience, men text their exes a bit more than women text theirs. It could be because women don’t usually suffer from a shortage of attention from the opposite sex and typically have a few flirtations going on to distract us at any given moment from thinking about the ex. Men, on the other hand, usually need to work pretty hard to get the attention of just one female, which can leave them with some awkward gaps in singlehood when they feel rather lonely and all they have to rely on is the women of times past. They think, “Maybe they aren’t interested anymore but they were—at one point—unmistakably interested so, it’s something.” That’s why, as a woman, throughout your life, you’ll just be going on about your day, and just like a bird sh*t falling from the sky—something you cannot control at all—an ex will text. Here are times your ex will almost definitely text.

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When he’s visiting his family

He’s looking at his parents, so happy, so connected and with such a rich history. He’s looking at the life they’ve built for themselves, with children and timeshares and wine collections. And he realizes just how far he is from having any of that…so he texts you, thinking maybe he can build it with you.

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