6 Textos que vais arrepender-te de lhe ter enviado depois da separação

Quantas vezes já esticou a mão para pegar no telemóvel desde que se separou do seu ex?

Quantas vezes pensaste que era uma boa ideia enviar-lhe uma mensagem, pensando que isso te faria sentir melhor?

Deve fazê-lo? Deve enviar-lhe uma mensagem de texto ou é melhor deixar as coisas como estão?

Well, let me tell you that you’re not alone.

Quase todas as raparigas que estão a passar por uma separação recente tinha os mesmos pensamentos a passar-lhe pela cabeça.

That is why we’re bringing you a collection of post-break-up texts you shouldn’t even think of sending him, as much as you’d like to.

‘I miss you’

Yes, there are moments when you can’t handle your emotions, as much as you try to.

Moments in which they overwhelm you to the point where you can’t breathe or function properly.

No entanto, essa não é sequer a pior parte.

O pior é pensar que a única forma de se sentir melhor é partilhar a saudade com quem a provocou.

You think you will feel better the moment you send your ex a text that you can’t make it without him. Well, guess what? You won’t.

In fact, you’ll be even worse when he doesn’t reply.

Or even if he does, you’ll regret going back to square one and annulling all the progress you’ve made so far.

Sei que tens saudades dele. Afinal, este era o homem com quem partilhava tudo e de quem gostava muito.

It wouldn’t be natural if you didn’t miss him and it would mean that you never loved him. However, it doesn’t mean he has to know this.

Especialmente não a meio da noite, alguns dias depois de terem acabado. Ou nunca.

‘Hey, remember that song?’

There doesn’t exist a couple who doesn’t have their song.

A canção de amor romântica que ouviram juntos ou as letras que melhor descrevem o seu romance.

E tu e o teu ex não são exceção. Sempre que ouves esta canção, todas as tuas memórias passam pela tua cabeça.

Lembra-se de tudo o que passou e, por um momento, deseja que tudo isso volte.

Durante esses minutos, parece que não passou tempo nenhum e sentimos todo o espetro de emoções que estávamos a sentir enquanto ouvíamos esta melodia com ele.

So, naturally, you want to share all of this with the person this song reminds you of — your ex-boyfriend.

You want him to feel the same nostalgia you’re feeling and you want to be important to him again, at least for a while.

Nevertheless, this doesn’t mean sending him this text wouldn’t be a mistake.

Because as soon as the moment is gone, you’ll wish you hadn’t done it.

As soon as you get back to reality, you’ll figure out that something like this is completely unnecessary and that you don’t actually miss him as much as you thought you did while the song was playing.

After all, he must have heard the same song since the two of you split, so why wasn’t he the one who reminded you of it?

‘Your new girl sucks’

Por muito ciumenta que seja do facto de o seu ex ter mudado de casa antes de si, não há desculpa para comentar a nova namorada dele.

It doesn’t matter whether you want to tell him that you were better than her, if you want to satirically say that she’s cute or even if you think that he’s searching for you in her — sending any text regarding his new life is a huge mistake.

Besides, you’ll only boost his ego and he’ll think of you as a lunatic who continues stalking him.

‘Hey, sorry, I texted you by accident’

Admita: quantas vezes já quis enviar pelo menos um emoji ao seu ex e depois dizer-lhe que foi um acidente e que na verdade queria enviar uma mensagem a outra pessoa?

Telefonar-lhe e depois desligar, justificando a si próprio que o seu telemóvel o fez sozinho?

Claro que o ideal seria que, depois de quebrarem o gelo, continuassem a conversa, que era o vosso plano inicial desde o início.

Bem, adivinha? Ninguém compra essa merda.

In fact, even if something like this happens by accident, he’ll always think you did it on purpose and that you were just looking for an excuse to get in touch with him.

So please, don’t even try these childish tricks because they won’t work.

‘I moved on’

OK, you obviously won’t send this literal text but any message which is implying that you’ve já o esqueci is a message you shouldn’t send.

Let’s be real: if you have the need to tell someone you’ve forgotten about them, you clearly haven’t. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the back of your head.

‘Want to come over?’

Uma das piores coisas que se pode fazer depois de terminar uma relação é transformá-la num caso casual.

I’m not telling you this because your ex will think of you as a slut (because who cares what he thinks and what is the difference between you and him if you two voluntarily sleep together?)

I’m telling you this because something like this would crush even the pieces of your heart which luckily remained unbroken and because an affair like this is impossible to sustain without further emotional damage.

Este era o homem por quem tinhas sentimentos profundos, por isso o que te faz pensar que agora podes ter sexo com ele sem compromissos?

What makes you think that all of your emotions won’t come back and that you won’t want to have him back?

Assim, enviar um texto que é, na verdade, um engate nunca é uma boa ideia.

If you really want to have some meaningless sex but don’t want a relationship, it’s better to find someone else for the job than to reopen your old wounds.