Should there be unresolved emotions, feelings come back when you see an ex again.

Even if you hadn’t thought about the ex for a while.

As long as you never did the work to resolve those emotions when the breakup occurred, those feelings come back when you see an ex again.

This is why it is so important to work through those emotions once a breakup occurs.

If you choose to ignore these emotions and quickly find a new boyfriend instead, you are setting yourself up for failure.

Any new relationship you get into is destined to be negatively affected, as you won’t be totally emotionally available to whoever you date.

Since you didn’t take the time to work through the powerful emotions triggered by the breakup, they don’t go away.

By quickly moving on to dating someone new, all you did was repress those emotions.

This means that somewhere in your consciousness, you continue to have feelings for that ex.

The newness of a new relationship misleads you into thinking that you are over your ex.

After all, a new relationship provides a distraction.

A distraction is not a solution.

That is why when you unexpectedly see that ex again, those feelings come back.

All of a sudden, regardless of whether you had thought about him recently or not, this unexpected meeting leaves an impression on you.

You try to get him out of your head by calling or texting your new boyfriend, wanting a distraction.

But after the conversation, you are back to thinking about the ex that you just saw.

Memories of your relationship with him return.

The ups and downs.

All of a sudden, you wonder whether he is over you or whether he still has feelings for you.

This is where you risk getting yourself into a rabbit hole where your curiosity gets the best of you.

You look in on what he has been doing with his life since the breakup by visiting his social media or talking to mutual friends about him.

Before you know it, you are spending a sizable portion of your day looking at what he posts and going back on his posts to see whether he mentions a girlfriend or is pictured with one.

This behavior is indicative of someone who never moved on from her ex.

When feelings come back after seeing an ex again, it often leads to obsessive behavior where you want to discover what said ex’s life has been like since the breakup.

Sometimes, the feelings don’t immediately come back.

There is a period of a few days or so for it to hit you.

Either way, these feelings muddle your thoughts, making it impossible for you to maintain a healthy relationship with anyone you are newly dating.

Whenever a breakup happens, it’s pivotal you resolve these emotions before moving on to a new relationship with a new man.

Without doing this, regardless of whether you have thought of your ex in a while or not, those feelings come back if you unexpectedly run into or see your ex again.