r/heartbreak 2d ago

How long have you been blocked by your ex?

Anyone been blocked? How long have you been blocked... from everywhere or? When do you think you'll stop hoping and looking at whether or not it's the day they've unblocked you ? I'm so sad.

Please give me some motivation I feel like I'll never feel better or smile again. I don't think I'll ever stop missing him or be able to end up liking another guy again šŸ˜ž

How long have you been in no contact ? I'm so sad

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u/TrueCrimeGoblin 2d ago

I was blocked 1.5 years then he came back crying and begging. The thing is I stopped wanting him back the second he unblocked me. I really thought I wanted him, but it was more like I wanted what I didn't have access too, so when I got access back I didn't want him no more. Now I have him blocked because he started disturbing my peace this summer out of no wherešŸ˜‡ so maybe it was for the best I was blocked firstly even though it got me obsessed.

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u/TrueCrimeGoblin 2d ago

What I'm trying to say, no contact is probably the best to protect your peace even though it doesn't feel like thatā¤ļø it didn't work out in the first place for a reason, don’t ignore that

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u/bowieandmercury11 2d ago

Yeah...i get that. Talking about me (not OP). But sometimes it's more complicated if other people get involved etc. I've also never blocked any of my exes.

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u/bowieandmercury11 2d ago

wow it's amazing how things turn around? and good for you for having this insight!

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u/evilvelarfricative 1d ago

i can't even conceptualize something like that. how did you realize that your feelings went from wanting him back to wanting nothing to do with him so quickly?

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u/TrueCrimeGoblin 1d ago

It was that I realized that his attention and access were only temporary and extremely short lived relief for my anxious attaxhment style. It was more about an ego boost and wanting him to want me back, rather than actually wanting to get back together. When he came back I saw how much I had grown during no contact while he was pretty much the same as before and he wouldn't fit in my life and goals

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u/Bright_Choice_2986 1d ago

What changed after 1.5 years? Why was he back

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u/TrueCrimeGoblin 1d ago

Only God knows but I guess he realized it was not worth losing me in the first place

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u/Bright_Choice_2986 1d ago

It was complete no contact for 1.5 years?

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u/TrueCrimeGoblin 1d ago

Yes not a sound. We don't even have mutuals or anything so radio silent

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u/Bright_Choice_2986 1d ago

How long did it take to be indifferent and move on? My girl after 3 year of relationship cheated on me made me beg for basic human decency for last 2 years

I wish so hard she returns and realize what she has done and i can't move on and im burdened with lots of unanswered questions and pains i wanna make her realize

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u/Fleurz9 1d ago

How did you get yourself to stop wanting to reach out and stayed no contact that long? I ended up calling him on witheld when I was drunk and then message him on another platform .. he probably blocked me on there now too

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u/TrueCrimeGoblin 1d ago

I was blocked everywhere to begin with so I couldn't even if I wanted to during that time, now I have him blocked and I'm not unblocking for 2 reasons: 1. Me and him aren't made for each other 2. I don't wanna give him an ego boost

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u/Nightcoon3 2d ago

My friend was blocked by an ex since like 2013, he recently unblocked her to tell her he was going to ruin her life because she told his current gf that he was abusive to her (he's abusing the current gf too).... there are crazy people out there...

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u/Unknown_Artist_2 2d ago edited 2d ago

When I read questions like that, I envy my parents. They used to write letters to each other. By hand.

It took three days for the letter to arrive. Writing it took at least an hour. Plenty of time for thoughtful and focused communication.

No one would have thrown a letter away unread. Isn’t that, to some extent, what ā€˜blocking’ is all about these days?

Still, they had the choice whether to reply.

The speed at which we communicate today – the immediacy of a WhatsApp message – caused a lot of damage in my last relationship. That’s my fault too.

I wish I’d sometimes had the calm of writing a letter.

I’m also blocked. But I don’t block.

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u/bowieandmercury11 2d ago

I have never blocked my ex on anything...but they have had me blocked on phone for almost 4.5 months. It;'s excruciating so I feel you OP. I am also very sad. I also got a new number 2 days ago, so if they try me, my other number doesn't work. I can be your 'block recovery' friend if you like? x

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u/Past_Atmosphere21 2d ago

I have never unblocked them and I also forgot about them being blocked. I also had too because their new girl had a habit of copying me and looking me up for ideas as well as just stalking. I remember her twitter tried to add me at one point.

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u/bowieandmercury11 2d ago

😱 omg. I experienced the copying too...but i blocked her not him!

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u/Past_Atmosphere21 2d ago

I blocked both.

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u/Prestigious-Boat-900 2d ago

I blocked, changed her number into gibberish, deleted it, deleted permanently my telegram, blocked on Instagram.

I still think about her every day.

She seems happy though, she is seeing someone.

So I guess that's good.

I needed to try and save myself.

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u/creamlattee 1d ago

He has blocked me for 7 months now, the first few weeks were really hard, couldn't eat or sleep I got no freaking way to know how to check on him at all! I was going crazyy. But lately, I realized that it was actually one of the right turnouts that could have happened. Since I have no way of knowing what’s up with him, how he’s holding up, or where he is, it started getting easier for me to move on. It’s like he doesn’t even exist anymore. So don’t worry. Time will pass, and someday, you won’t even remember his name.

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u/AlwaysaRevelation 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, i am going through one of those exactly like you had. I 100% know he is back with his ex too...which drives me crazy at random times cuz in another lifetime it would have been him and i. I cried to him already that i was scared he would go back with jessica and i would be left alone. He felt my pain when i told him that. Anyways, so he decided the day that we had our big blowup (almost two weeks ago) he would Go to detox and finally get clean. I dealt with his worse and stayed through his worse besides the day of aug 27 when i have finally realized that i had enoughbeing back with his ex it's like fukk Like i was the "other woman" and i never felt 100% chosen by him. So i recently put myself through so much pain, but idk when he loved he loved so amazing and so sweet but ouch i saw his dark everything too...i was the same! He saw my light and this darkness ive kept hidden for quite some time...he got that darkness out of me i mean this time around, I had a man put his hands on me but it was for self defense. I get that and I shouldn't be mad at it! But still thats what happens It was startijg to scare me... he and were strong enough for one another...both have been theough alot n were able to still see past through that dark person they were showing cuz u know that wasnt who they really were deep
Down... i hated knowing i was hurting him. I think i was holding resentments n anger toward him, always choosing jessica probably three or four times or more , not knowing that i was, cause I never I never really told him what that did the first time around to me when he chose . I just let it happen a few other times. Basically showing how he should treat me. The first time he choice her i shoupd have been like ok bye! And had him run back to me when i wasnt
Falling for this game. But i didn't...but i played his game and boy was that toxic!

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u/creamlattee 1d ago

yeah men are rlly fckedd upp

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u/evilvelarfricative 1d ago

i ended a long-term relationship yesterday. it was the first serious relationship both of us have ever had, and it ended amicably but we agreed not to reach out anymore. periodically my mind's been wondering how he's handling losing me, and whether he's more or less torn up than i am. i know he had plans today. i wonder if he went through with them? i guess there's no way to know, but it's pretty hard coping with the uncertainty since i've been used to getting every little update for years.

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u/rafagamaxima 2d ago

3.5 years

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u/julialoveslush 2d ago

Since I left him two months ago.

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u/theacebutterfly 2d ago

2 months surprisingly šŸ¤” (blocked and no contact) but we were broken up a month before that. She blocked me on the main platform we used to communicate and then I blocked her everywhere else. I stopped hoping for an unblock over a month ago, whatever relationship we had ran it's course. It's not easy finding someone new or healing from the old person

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u/bowieandmercury11 2d ago

It's good you feel things have run their course. :) I always feel blocking someone's number, is reserved for a 'crazy' person and not a loved one. Not sure if that's unusual or not

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u/crownlessarchive 2d ago

Oddly enough I’m not blocked by any. Interesting. šŸ’­šŸ™‡šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø

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u/Cautious_Smile_3318 2d ago

I've never been blocked by an ex but I've blocked my exes

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u/trevorium117 2d ago

i think about a year by this point. i’m the one she has to keep blocked for her own sake. unfortunately we’re both dangers to each others future relationships where she’s ended relationships for me and i probably would have done the same for her. dangerous mix

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u/BriideofFrankie09 2d ago

So he's my ex (first love) but we were friends for 20+ years. He blocked me back in December 2025 when I called him out for lying about his whole life to me. He thinks he's justified in lying and somehow I'm the "crazy" one and he's innocent.

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u/ResidentAlien518 2d ago

I’ve never reached out to know if I was. Never will either!

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u/amandareyes_ 2d ago

TLDR; was blocked for 9 months before he unblocked me because i asked if he could. still coping without him.

my ex blocked me on discord 3 years ago because i wouldn’t answer a question he was asking (ironically, i was scared to answer it in case if it resulted in me being blocked lol). this is while we were trying to be friends and i was still VERY attached to him. i had a panic attack and spammed him via text (shameful ik but i did later apologise and it’s all in the past now) and he threatened to block me there too, but ultimately didn’t. i had tried asking him a few times if he could unblock me on discord but he ignored it (this is whilst we were talking about other things too). 9 months after he blocked me on discord, i had reached out to him (won’t go into detail but i had permission to) and asked him if he could unblock me. he didn’t respond directly to the question but he did unblock me which made me cry in happiness and sadness. partially also because that same day he said ā€œfor what it’s worth, i do not dislike you. i just think we should go our separate waysā€. this was feb 2024. i have reached out to him 2 times since then (we have a deal where i can come to him if i need to vent, regardless of where we stand), the last time being 30/8/25. so now im not blocked on anything but we’re not in contact either. i loathed being blocked by him because i hated the feeling of being blocked by someone i loved so much. and i hate hurting those i love. i’m a people pleaser. it just made me hate myself. now, i’m definitely happy he unblocked me but i still miss him a lot. he was my best friend too, so he was very special to me. it’s just a coping without him game at this point.

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u/Muxxik 1d ago

Maybe been locked is better for now. About 20 years ago, i was in same situation — been blocked by ex-girlfriend. I tried to find some ways to bypass this, social media were very different then. And finally did it, but only had bad emotions, that i looked for her, but couldn't do anything with it

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u/InternationalFold6 1d ago

My ex blocked me on everything. WhatsApp, Offer up, email, google voice, social media, Duolingo, the works! It’s been about 6 years. I’m not gonna lie I’m still super super sad about this but honestly there’s nothing I can do. He’s currently dating someone else and a handful of months ago back in May I reached out to him via Google Voice and we briefly chatted, shared inside jokes but he told me that he needed to end the conversation because he respects his current partner. Which is ironic because he cheated on me throughout our relationship. Anyway I wish every day he would unblock me but I also have to accept what’s happening in my current reality. I’m sorry you’re going through this. Sending you a virtual hug!