Long time reader, first time poster.
He and I were together for ten months. He broke up with me 4 1/2 months ago. When it happenned, it was a total shock to me. It was such a shock that I didn't know we had broken up until the next day, I thought that he just wanted to take a break. Over the next two weeks, I would call him to meet up and whenever we met up, I would try to convince him to get back together with me. Once he even told me that if I kept hounding him to get back together, he wouldn't want to spend any more time with me. Now that I think about it, it makes sense.
I did NC for a month, then called him after a month and left a voicemail that said that I really missed my best friend. He called right back, and we have been spending time together as friends.
The reason that I can't do NC with him is that we are working on a project together and both of us are essential to getting this project off the ground. I really do want him back. I have a hope that us working together closely will bring us back together. In the time since we split up I have worked on the issues that came between us, and I am a better person for it. I would have to say that there have been many wonderful things that have happenned and many things I have discovered that might not have occurred if we hadn't broken up. He is really impressed with the new me.
He has said that right now he needs plenty of time to be on his own, to be completely focused on his needs and his needs alone. I can understand this. He knows that I have not put my life on hold and that I have been dating.
I have healed a great deal, but deep in my heart, I believe that we will be back together. And I'm finally at a point where I don't feel a great sense of longing anymore when I see him or think of him.
He has just left town for a couple of weeks, and I have promised myself that I will not call him while he is away. He has already made plans with me for my birthday, which happens to be a couple of days after he returns.
Have any of you had a working relationship with the one you were once in love with? And have any of you been able to apply the rules of NC, or actually LC while working together? And have any of you been able to rekindle a relationship while in a situation like the one I am in?
Thank you.