Ending a relationship can be difficult, but can also provide a much-needed fresh start.

This man tried to be kind through the process, but his efforts only put him back in his ex’s grasp.

What he thought would be minimal contact quickly spiraled into daily chats, weekend stays and big favors, until he finally had to say enough was enough.

Read on for the full story.

AITA for not helping my Ex?

My Ex and I broke up during the last week of May.

But, she said she couldn’t just quit talking to me like I never existed, so I agreed to continue being in touch.

Although, he seems to have underestimated just how often she still wanted to talk.

I thought that we’d be talking twice a week max, and meet once in 2~3 weeks, and I was wrong.

She wants to talk every day, about everything and wants to meet for at least an hour on the weekend (which would turn into her staying at my place for the whole weekend).

One day, he reaches a breaking point.

A couple of months have passed, and I’ve had enough.

I put a foot down and said no more of that.

She broke down and called me names and said very mean things.

They have a big fight which ends in another goodbye, but it doesn’t even last a full day.

That call ended with her saying that she doesn’t need me, and that she would never see my face ever again.

The immediate next day she calls me up while I was at work.

She’s not able to find an Uber because of the rain, and wanted me to pick her up on my car and drop her home.

I denied the assistance.

He has several reasons for refusing to help her.

I denied helping her because (i) I didn’t want to see her face the very next day after a very emotionally draining argument, which ended with her berating me.

And (ii) it would take an hour for me to go to my home in that traffic, but to go to her work from mine, pick her up, drop her at her place, and return to my place would take about 3 hours.

I was not willing to go through that drag, on top of which, I had to spend almost 2 hrs in car with her.

His ex doesn’t take this well, and now he’s left wondering if he’s a bad person for not helping.

Later on, in a follow-up fight about not helping her, she said that it was minimum courtesy to help a girl out, and I must be doing it as a man.

A female friend of mine said the same thing.

I am now conflicted. Please enlighten me lords of reddit.

AITA?

Guess there’s no closure in sight for this couple.

What did Reddit think?

This commenter warns him to not let her take advantage of his kind gestures.

If she won’t play nice, he shouldn’t play nice either.

She may be going through a breakup, but she still needs to be able to handle herself independently.

The ex-boyfriend is NTA for five reasons:

He’s trying to close a door in his life, but she keeps opening it back up.

She needs to move on, whether she likes it or not.

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