Do you accept the Love proposal when you know its just a rebound relationship?

@subha12 (18441)
India
November 20, 2007 10:23pm CST
Are you going to accept the proposal when you find out that it is just a rebound relationship? Say the person had a relationship and just broke off. Then he needs some shoulder to support on.He finds that he can confide in you as you have supported him through thick and thin. Are you going to accept his love proposal in this situation? Or will you politely say him that you are there but its just not the right feling for you.
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@poohgal (6845)
• Singapore
28 Nov 07
Sadly speaking. I have accepted such Love proposals before. =( Actually, I've rejected him a few times because I know it will just be a rebound relationship. I do not know why I accepted on the 4th request. I guess I did like him then. I should have listened more to my rational mind. I listened too much to my emotional heart. Biggest regret in my life.
@subha12 (18441)
• India
29 Nov 07
Actually it is really selfish from the part of the person who just want you for his own fulfillment. Atlast hwen he get over it, he just dumo you and continue with his old GF.
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@tantal25 (838)
• United States
28 Nov 07
i would not let that happen even if i have feelings for the guy. It will make me hurt more, the fact that you knew that you are just being used for confiding and support. And i think it is really unfair for that person to ask someone to be his bf/gf just because he/she wanted to be conforted or what.
@subha12 (18441)
• India
29 Nov 07
you are right.
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@lucky_witch (2707)
• Philippines
2 Dec 07
In that kind of situation, I would say to him that I can be his friend and support him all through out. But at the moment that he is just from a heart ache what he feels for me is maybe result for the comfort that I bring to him. If i have some feelings for him then I could ask him to just slow down until he already survive... and if in the case that he still feels love for me after that... then maybe that is the time to give it a try.
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
21 Nov 07
I'm married, but if I weren't, I would not be getting involved enough with someone on the rebound for that to happen. That would be leading someone on inappropriately. It is not possible if one goes through life with both eyes open to fail to see what is happening. One takes appropriate measures to divert such attention before things get to that point, ideally.
@subha12 (18441)
• India
21 Nov 07
you are right. its very wrong to lead a person for just own shake to wrong direction.
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@vsraovsr (734)
• India
21 Nov 07
No, I may not accept it if I completely know about his behaviour but also will try to know in detail about his broken relationship before saying no.
@subha12 (18441)
• India
22 Nov 07
And it very bad from that person who does so. He is looking at his own advantage but making other people's life miserable. When his loss eases out he is again with his GF. But making the life of a third person hell.
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• Philippines
21 Nov 07
of course not. i don't want to be a substitute even if i like or love the guy. i don't think it's real love that he's proposing. he just notice you because he's broken hearted. as always the case, he'll leave you when everything turns out to be okay with his former relationship. i will tell him to think it over and over again, if his proposal is genuine and if he also love me. not the instant love that spring because he broke up with his girlfriend.
@subha12 (18441)
• India
21 Nov 07
absolutely right. i have the same idea like you.
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
23 Nov 07
This is a situation where it's imperitive to tell the truth. The person is feeling insecure and more in need of friendship but thinks they are unloveable. It would be wrong to give the person false hope and also wrong not to hold them at arms length. To get too close to a person who is hurting from a relationship that's failed is wrong. It's taking advantage of the vulnerability.
@whyaskq (7523)
• Singapore
22 Nov 07
It all depends on how much I understand and know the proposer plus when was the last breakoff. If the person is an ex, the consideration would be why we broke off in the first place. Nevetheless, I would provide support to one who needs my moral support but definitely not at the expense of my own relationship.
• India
2 Dec 07
i will politely refuse the person. As i know it is not the true feeling and also it is for his own advantage, he wants to mix up my life i will never accept. In long run, when they make up, they leave you behind.
29 Nov 07
I would just tell him that I would always be there to support him, but I think he's a little vulnerable, in his current state, and that he should think about what he's saying, because it's not an expression I take lightly, and it's not something that you can easily take back. If, in a few weeks, or whenever I thought he'd moved on a little, he still claimed to feel the same, I'd probably consider a relationship, but enter it very carefully.
@sang2k2 (1833)
• India
2 Dec 07
I may not accept the proposal and would prefer to be alone. As accepting the proposal would lead him to rule upon me, and coming out of one relation and getting in to new one is not the right solution as there can be a chance of loosing this new relation. There can be a case that the guy just wants to have fun and is well aware of my present state so he can be here for a while and may not actually be interested in me or any kind of committment. There could be possibility of just using each other. So not a right thing o go ahead with it.
@Estina54 (385)
• United States
30 Nov 07
I would politly tell him that I'm in a new relationship, though it might not be true. I don't think that we can feel the same for each other. If a relationship doesn't have friendship as a basis cannot last, a rebound relationship would be just a "make-up just to break-up."