Ex's do come back. If htey don't gather up the courage, they certainly ponder about it. If you take them back, that's another issue! I never took mine back and I'm so proud I didn't, after 1 year of NC! So grateful to by best friend who 'nursed' me and kept me out of his radar or out of temptation to go back with him, as if I met him after a month or two after sepatation, I may have goneback with him. But after a year, he gathered up the b*lls to ask me back and tell me to contact him at any point in his life, if I want him, no matter what. Yeah, how great is that, he may be with a new girl, and he gave me green light to interfere... ANyway,. they do come back. Hell, I was a dumper and I went back too inthe past...