I happened upon my ex on facebook over the weekend. Found him as result of looking at the friends of friends... you get the idea.
We parted some fifteen years or so ago because basically we lived in South Africa and I came back to the UK. Had planned to go back but he found someone else (which was inevitable really as I'd been gone a while) and thus we split and went our separate ways. he called me a few times after that, but gradually contact fizzled and we lost touch.
So out of pure curiosity I sent him a friend request. he accepted and had a couple of message conversations, most of which were about what we're both doing now etc, the rough time he's had (has been engaged once, married twice...).
But he's trying to be such a charmer... not in terms of wanting to charm me now but in terms of "oh I thought about you a lot over the years/am so happy that you're happy" and interspersed with that is all the nostalgia "oh I kept x that you gave me all these years ago/I went to x place where I knew you lived" (and I know he couldn't have been there because it's a secure place that you can't just visit as it was a diamond mine so basically it's bullshit), and all I can do is think...
I wonder if it's an ex thing?