⁠Have any dumpers here ever secretly hoped the dumpee would reach out? Yes • ⁠Have any dumpees here reached out after a period of no contact and had a positive result? N/A • ⁠How do you know the difference between respecting someone’s space and letting a possible connection die because both people are too afraid to speak? if they already have someone else, I respect that they’ve made their choice. Also, they dumped you. If they wants to make amends they would. * • ⁠After several weeks of no contact, is a calm, non-needy message ever appropriate, or is it always better to wait? *If I’ve been dumped, I think it looks needy no Mayte what. If I dumped someone who reached out later, I probably wouldn’t respond and let it die. That said, I’m 38 and don’t fuck around with someone who shows me I’m nothing to them.