Hard to say. You may be an anomaly.

There are no absolutes; all these articles should be read as trends, not hard fact. We all exist under a bell curve of averages.

I myself am female, have never gone back to an old flame but a lot of the guys I have dated more than 6 months have expressed renewed interest after a breakup either to me directly or to a mutual 3rd party. I’ve thought about going back twice; once for about 2 weeks and once for a few hours. One of those times, it would have been me seeking a renewal, one would have been me accepting a renewal.

It doesn’t seem to matter who ended the relationship or why, on average guys tend to want to return to the comfort of a relationship rather than be alone with themselves for a while. Most women would agree that as part of their dating experience.

I consider myself to be an anomaly, too, in that I seem to break the average on the high end. I have a theory about that, but it doesn’t have to do with this discussion.

I’m curious, how do you respond to these attempts at renewal? Are you tempted? How much thought do you give it? Were you the one who ended it or the other way around?