You gotta a point there Killer. However I'm not about to go around announcing that my ex and I are on a 'break'. Not to mention that I tell (and will continue telling) any girl that I go out with that my view on dating is just hanging out to see if we're worth going anywhere. I don't intend to lie and imply in any way that she's LTR (long term relationship) material without letting her know that I have to get to know her first. That way she won't get her hopes up.

But on the flipside, what else do you expect me to do? Just sit and wait and wait and wait all the while hoping that my ex will someday 'come around'? I'd be pretty damn bored/frustrated if that was all I was doing. For all I know she could, three months from now, say "Alexi, we've been dating other people and I've found someone else. I just wanted to let you know because I wanted to make sure that you didn't wait around any more. I had a great time with you though and thank you for being patient." And in the meantime, I will have lost the ENTIRE summer to waiting and hoping. I don't know what will happen, but I really don't intend to sit around and idle while she makes up her mind. Especially when we both know and agreed that it's not fair that I do that.

Alexi