I can't tell you what to do and I won't. I will just politely point out where it can all go wrong. Even if the both of you are happier than a labrador on a walk, it still could all come crashing down. The more you analyze the situation the harder it will get. So, if you are both cooler than a slice of cucumber on a cold day, you'll be fine. And, if you don't care how many people you both went out with over the break, power to the both of you. But if you are quite the opposite, you broke up with them for a reason, remember that.
1) Clean Slate
Even if you agree that it is a 'clean slate', it will never be a 'clean slate'. Your previous fights will be brought up again and a big slab of grease will destroy your immaculate plate. There will never be a 'clean slate' because you have been there before.
2) No Excitement
You have no first times really because you are hardly going to get married and have kids now are you? So, your firsts are long gone. This caused excitement and now you are struggling to bring anything new to the relationship. You slowly feel it fizzling out and this is going to cause a colossal fight.
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3) The "I Love You"
Do you still love each other? Do you actually though? Should you immediately jump back into saying this? It is up to you but it could end up with either of you saying it when you don't mean it. Leaving you both ending up in a loveless relationship based on past behavior. Awful, really.
4) The Ex Reveal
Do you tell each other who you have both been with since the breakup? "What they don't know won't hurt them", springs to mind. But I hate to break it to you, you live in Ireland, and one way or another they will find out. If you tell them everyone they might freak out. If you tell them no one they might find out later. If I was you I wouldn't get back with them altogether.
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5) Cheating Equation
If either of you have cheated before you will always wonder if it will happen again. Even if you say you trust them, you know they would never do that again, you will think they will. You can only act cool and collected for so long, and then in no time, you are the suspicious, psycho boy or girlfriend.
6) Resent Others
Random girls or guys, you may never have known until you got back with your ex, you now hate. They are now your enemies and that casual score in Coppers they had with your lover means you are going to give them looks that could kill.
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7) Unrealistic
If there are problems in your relationship already, the problems will be harder to face second time round. You know now all the signs to how it could end between you, so, you are avoiding them like the plague. You will do anything to avoid these situations at all costs.
8) Check Up's
Since you are now going out for the second or fifteenth time you really have nothing to hide from each other. Therefore, you have no shame. You will find yourself asking them where they are every hour and complaining when they don't write back to your text straight away. These are bad signs. So, ask yourself, "would you have done this if you had just started going out with someone new?", no didn't think so.
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9) Annoying Habits
Remember those things that you used to find so attractive about the other person? You are seeing them as annoying now aren't you? Thought so. It is all coming crashing down now. And, look sure, wasn't it only yesterday when you were talking about your future kids Greg and Diana? Ah well it's time to move on.
You gave it a good second shot but now it is time to walk away. Just think if you had listened to College Times you could have saved yourself all that heartache. Ah, well, plenty more fish in The Liffey.
