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[quote=taketothebank][quote]I posted +1000 and I honestly think part of it is [b]men are more sentimental/prone to missing an ex[/b] than women. Within my friend group almost every woman has been contacted by an ex at some point or another- I would say a fraction of my guy friends are contacted by an ex gf. I think men like to put on a front of being unaffected and if anything that contributes to having trouble getting over a person[/quote]

Not sure this post's logic works:

1) "[i]Almost every woman has been contacted by ex[/i]" - In our society, men are much more likely to initiate romantic contact with a woman than women are with a man.  The fact that ex bf initiated the contact with the ex gf is likely given the fact that the man initiated the contact with the woman in the first place.

2) "[i]fraction of guy friends contacted by ex gf[/i]" - Please see the point above.

Therefore, fact that men are more likely to contact an ex than women are could be more related more to the fact that men normally contact women in the first place, not how much the ex bf misses the ex gf.

This is interesting since based on this thread alone, the female posters post much more often that they are the "one that got away" than they male posters do.  I realize that female posters outnumber male poster so this could account for this fact.  It is also possible these women believe they "got away" when if fact other women also believe they "got away" from the same man. It other words, it is very unlikely any one woman is the "one and only one that got away" for any one man.

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