response from you in this phase. The apologies, the begging, the reassurances that they have changed and seen the error of their ways. Even the use of humour, anything that will get you reinvested into the relationship.

It can be weeks months or even years after you cut ties and they will find a way back to you, or so they hope. Those sudden phone calls and messages out of the blue claiming to be 'thinking about you' 'missing you'. They've realised 'you were the right one all along'.

Picking up where they (not you) last left off as though they have done nothing in the past to hurt or harm you in any way. Picking up with a comfortable 'familiarity' that they don't have the right to use anymore if they even ever did is another hoovering technique. A narcissis...

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