To support your wellbeing, closure, and setting yourself up for success with your next chapter, remove the guy from your life. This includes removing photos of him from your home, office, and social media pages. You can also get rid of any of their gifts or items that remind you of them.
Every person you date can be used as an opportunity for increasing your awareness, growth, empowerment, and reviewing what you are looking for in your ultimate romantic partner. It can also be used to review any areas where you may need to adjust how you navigate your approach to dating and/or a romantic relationship.
It may let him know you can accept being treated badly and still let him come back, so he’s more likely to treat you badly again (assuming, of course, he treated you badly in the first place). It may make you seem weak in his eyes - that’s not good if he’s controlling or dominating to begin with or if you know your confidence and self-esteem are not as high as you would like. It lends an aura of inevitability to the relationship - in other words, you can start to feel like this is your destiny and your doom, that no matter how you try to break away, you will always end up with him, again, if your confidence and esteem levels are low. If he was disrespectful to you, it desensitizes you to his disrespect of you.
It may let him know you can accept being treated badly and still let him come back, so he’s more likely to treat you badly again (assuming, of course, he treated you badly in the first place). It may make you seem weak in his eyes - that’s not good if he’s controlling or dominating to begin with or if you know your confidence and self-esteem are not as high as you would like. It lends an aura of inevitability to the relationship - in other words, you can start to feel like this is your destiny and your doom, that no matter how you try to break away, you will always end up with him, again, if your confidence and esteem levels are low. If he was disrespectful to you, it desensitizes you to his disrespect of you.
