{"id":25443,"date":"2024-03-13T20:31:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T00:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=25443"},"modified":"2024-03-19T19:30:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T23:30:25","slug":"got-broken-up-with-how-do-i-differentiate-their-niceties-from-renewed-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/03\/13\/got-broken-up-with-how-do-i-differentiate-their-niceties-from-renewed-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Got broken up with\u2026 how do I differentiate their niceties from renewed interest?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AW03132024-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AW03132024-2.jpg\" alt=\"Got broken up with... how do I differentiate their niceties from renewed interest?\" class=\"wp-image-25439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AW03132024-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AW03132024-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AW03132024-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Got broken up with&#8230; how do I differentiate their niceties from renewed interest?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Be honest and brave and communicate directly. Be clear with yourself how you would react if they were interested in getting back together and whether you would want to be &#8220;just friends&#8221;. Then&#8230; ask them what their intentions are This is a hard conversation to have, but it could save you (both) a long period of frustration and possibly unfounded hopes (on one side or the other.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AW03142024-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"305\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AW03142024-5.jpg\" alt=\"If they broke up with you they are probably not interested. Onto the next\" class=\"wp-image-25454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AW03142024-5.jpg 305w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AW03142024-5-300x282.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">If they broke up with you they are probably not interested. Onto the next<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It would be nice if the heart were so unambiguous. Sometimes it does take some conversations to get clarity in order to move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be honest and brave and communicate directly. Be clear with yourself how you would react if they were interested in getting back together and whether you would want to be &#8220;just friends&#8221;. Then&#8230; ask them what their intentions are This is a hard conversation to have, but it could save you (both) a long period &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/03\/13\/got-broken-up-with-how-do-i-differentiate-their-niceties-from-renewed-interest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Got broken up with\u2026 how do I differentiate their niceties from renewed interest?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25513,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25443\/revisions\/25513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}