Saw her after two months of no contact

Hello everybody,

I’m confused by this situation, could you please give some opinions?

Some background:

Be dumped by ex-girlfriend after a 8 year and half relationship. After two months of no contact I finally saw her yesterday at the gym.

She was a member of the gym for about the last three years, three months before the break up I decided do join the gym. She seemed to support my decision and even said it was a good idea because she was losing motivation to go to the gym and now we could go together. I was happy because I felt I was losing her and this would be a good chance to spent more time together.

However, we went very few times together to the gym she complained about no motivation to go to the gym, and even said the gym conditions were getting worse.
In the last month of our relationship she barely appeared at the gym, but I still went alone or with some friends.

In the day she broke with me I said we should avoid seeing each other, because it would be harder for me. She sadly agreed (she still wanted my friendship), I asked about the gym situation, and she said that had lost all motivation to go the gym and would leave it to me. I said she didn’t need to leave, but she insisted in leaving and said she was more excited with some dancing classes that she was going now with some female friends. If she didn’t left the gym I would, I couldn’t heal my heart and see her almost everyday, at the time I already knew no contact was the answer.

So, yesterday imagine my surprise when I saw her passing by me at the gym, we didn’t had the angle to make eye contact, but it was her. I must admit I panicked I tried to keep it cool and went straight to the locker room and went home. I think she saw me. Believe me, the gym was the last place I expected to see her.

This really confuses me, why the gym now?
I’ll be honest, I don’t know if I want her back. I was aiming for more two more months of no contact, and each day that passes my will to contact her is decreasing.

I removed her from facebook two weeks ago, after I saw her car parking outside her work at late night (I was passing by). I assumed she went in a date with another guy. Don’t know for sure. But thinking her with another guy made me sad and at the same time made me feel repulsed.

She posted some quotes on facebook in the last month, two mutual facebook friends told me it seems she had some regrets. However in her last post she seemed she was in love.

I’m feeling a lot better, my confidence is higher. I went to some dates with this attractive girl. I guess my ex heard about it. It’s a small town. I’m starting to feel that I really don’t need my ex to be happy. I’m starting to see that there are a lot of interesting women out there.

So my question is why she went back to the gym? Could it be she thinks it’s all forgotten? She just feel it was good to go to the gym and that’s it? I mean the gym is close to her house, but she even mentioned months before that she was considering moving to another gym due to the lack of conditions of the gym.

A friend of mine told me this was very strange and he thinks she wants to play with my head, that her ego is hurt. She doesn’t understand how a man that loved her more than life itself could move on so fast. The truth is I didn’t totally moved on, but I think I’m really close of move on.

I really don’t want to interact with her, I’m not 100% healed. I’m afraid interacting with her would open my wounds. This upsets me because she knows it, she knows that I believe in the expression “out of sight out of mind”. Still she shows at the gym. Maybe she just thinks I moved on and she feel to workout…I don’t know.

What do you think? Is she trying to mess with my mind or I’m just over analyzing?

Ur not over analyzing anything. Its quite normal to act like this. Only she can tell the real reason why she joined the gym back. I can only say that it is a greag opportunity to show that your okay with the break up and have accepted it totally. You dont have to talk to her. You shouldnt talk to her. Just act indifferently. It will mess with her head even if she didnt come back to the gym for you.
My advice:play it cool. Dont talk to her. Dong even look at her. Act as if you dont know her and is a complete stranger for you. IF she approaches you, like she says HEY just give a smile and walk past her. You dong have to be rude but dont be the nice guy as well. If she asks you how you have been doing… say m good and then leave the conversation right there by saying i gotta go or something like that. No need to ask her back how she is or anything.

I suggest that you don’t look too much into her quotes on Facebook as this will pull you back. I would suggest that your mutual friends not tell you about the posts. Its hard to tell why she came back to the gym. She might want to see if there are any changes in you. The next time she comes just be cool about it, if she greets you just greet back and continue with what you are doing. If you feel that you can’t handle it I suggest you join another gym.

Divjun thank you for replying :slight_smile:

Yesterday I started believing that I really didn’t saw her. I start believing my mind was playing tricks, since I only saw her face partially and it didn’t make any sense she joining the gym, but today I got the confirmation, from a friend, that it was really her.

Now I must do my job and play it cool like Fonzie :). Honestlly I don’t really know if I want her back. A part of me just wants to hug her, other part remembers all the suffering and just doesn’t wants to suffer again.

One thing is sure! I’m not he same person I was two months ago. I’m better, I don’t need her. Maybe I want her. Let’s see.

That’s exactly what I plan to do @munya . I’ll give it a month, if I find it too hard to handle it I’ll just move to another gym.

I’ll be honest with you I think handled the break up pretty well. I even surprised myself. But the day I saw her walking by at the gym my hands and legs started to tremble. I had to make a tremendouslly effort to keep my posture just to walk straight. It was so unexpected!

If I saw her again I’ll be better prepared.

Like you said it’s hard to know why she joined the gym. One thing is certain, she knows I’m feeling better otherwise she wouldn’t join the gym. When she break up with me she told me that didn’t want to hurt me and would respect my space. I have told her back then that we should avoid seeing each other because it would be too hard for me.

Ya seeing an ex facebook sucks really hard. That’t why I removed her. LOL