How do I (20M) reconnect with an old ex (20F)?
TLDR: I will reference some of this info in the main body of the post just for the sake of it, but I am a 20 year old guy and I want to reconnect with and old friend/ex who’s a 20 year old girl.
So the title is definitely not the full story. About two years ago now me and one of my friends developed feelings for each other we were both 18 at the time and decided to start going out. We had lots of fun but eventually she was going off to college and I wasn’t so we mutually decided to break up because we were worried about the long distance.
We stayed in contact for a while as friends, giving each other advice, sharing silly little things, etc. but we were slowly drifting farther and farther apart.
We never fully lost contact and I would say stayed friends but eventually we started dating other people and that’s when contact truly stopped, that was about a year ago.
Now I (20M) after a few failed relationships realized that I was chasing after what I had with her and I couldn’t find that. So now I want to reach out and reconnect even if it’s just as friends cause she was a very important part of my life even before we dated all those years ago.
I know we are both currently single so there’s no partner in the way for either of us, cause it can be weird for a guy friend to try and talk to a girl he used to date when she’s with someone else I know.
Basically I just want to ask for advice how do I go about this cause I want her as a friend and maybe something more in the future but I also don’t want to lose her forever.
Thanks for any advice people have and apologies for my bad grammar.