If you have, then you're probably familiar with the pain that comes with it. It's not unusual to wish that you'd never feel the same kind of pain ever again.

If you've never been through a break-up before, but feel as though your relationship is headed there, then be VERY careful. You're probably bound to make the same mistakes that most women make when trying to avoid a break-up.

Here's a common scenario: The relationship starts out amazingly. It'd seem as though he couldn't get enough of you, and a day wouldn't seem complete without him getting in touch with you at least once. Everything seemed perfect, and you may even have had thoughts about when he's going to go down on one knee and ask you to marry him.

Then, suddenly, he starts becoming less present in your relationship. For some reason he becomes buried in work, or becomes more interested in his friends than in you. He spends less and less time with you. You may have tried to ask him what was going on, but he simply shrugged it off. The more you tried, the farther he drifted away - until, for whatever reason he may have had, he simply broke the relationship off.

The reason why men suddenly lose interest is because they've lost the attraction they had for you. I'm not talking about physical attraction here - I'm talking about the more intense emotional attraction, which is the stuff that makes relationships last a lifetime. There may have been a lot of it during the early "chemistry" stages of the relationship, but unless it stays there, it slowly goes away.

In other words, unless this emotional attraction is rekindled, the relationship won't last. And no amount of fussing, talking, crying, or convincing can turn things around - it'll even just make things worse.

It may sound a little hard to believe, but I've seen this pattern happen over and over in women I know and don't know. Most women have great intuitions, and can sense when a relationship suddenly starts going south. This is a good thing, but unfortunately, most women also shoot themselves in the foot by trying to talk their way out of the problem.

You'll have to remember that if you want the relationship to work, you'll have to become the woman he fell in love with. And the best way to do this is to keep things fresh. Always bring something new to the table. Be fun. Be honestly optimistic. Be independent. Be someone who makes his life more enjoyable, and he won't find any reason to leave you at all.

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