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How Often Do Exes Get Back Together (Exact Survey Results)
An overview and analysis of a 4534-participant survey on how often do exes get back together that I’ve been conducting for over a year.
There are many untruths out there, even some blatant lies, about how often exes get back together. Of course, this comes as no surprise.
We breakup advice givers — we’re incentivized to mislead. Because the more certainty about the odds of exes reconciling we can inject into our followers, the liklier it is they’ll buy our products and services.
Think about it like this. If I told you there was some exceptionally high chance you’ll get back with your ex, you’d probably jump at the chance to hire me to make it happen.
But if I told you that getting back together with an ex is usually a lost cause and a dumb idea, you’d more likely dismiss reconciliation as foolish and not even worth attempting.
Well, I hate to say this, but reconciliation, while not always, is quite often a lost cause and a dumb idea.
According to a survey of 4534 participants, aged 18 to 55, I conducted between January 2023 and April 2024, only 32% of exes get back together, and roughly 18% of those 32% have stayed together for…
