Do I reply to ex's text?

LegacyUser

Broke up a month (he did it). Few texts initially & saw him couple weeks ago to exchange stuff. No contact for 2 weeks (I promised myself not to contact him).
Then a few hours ago get a text out of blue about something trivial, something he saw in a shop I had wanted and bought it. No 'how are you?' or anything.

Why has he done this? Now I would love to be with him but only if he was mad to be with me. Should I reply, I don't really want to. If it means more than he was just thinking of me or bored or I'm the old reliable then he should make more of an effort I think....

I don't need this, it's too soon unless he's had second thought. Would you ignore this one & see?

stupidusername

as hard as it would be not to reply, i think it'd be better not to think much of it. He could be genuine and wants to be a decent person and talk to you, but i'd assume he's just bored, doesn't have many people he feels close to and decided to text you as he knows you'll feel something to texting back.

You would have a better idea of what kind of person he is, so it's really up to you. If you can't really move on unless you've very little contact with him then that's what you have to go with. Though maybe you could just tell him this is how you feel.

You could just text back - thanks for letting me know .

LegacyUser

He's been paid up on a dating site for the past two weeks so I have little sympathy for him and his style is to mess with one's head, though he doesn't realise he does it. I'd rather ignore him right now to be honest. His text is insensitive as it dragged up old memories, mentioned a place we went to a good bit. He did this also the day after we exchanged personals too about something trivial
My best friend, who is a very understanding person, thinks he's acting like a b**tard

Sephiroth_dude

No dont txt back,you'll be taking a step backwards.