Getting rid of memories of people

Man up.

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yes, i'd like some advice on erasing my ex's phone number from my head please. i only know two numbers by heart - my mum's, and my ex's. we broke up over 18 months ago. argh!

meet someone else

That's the obvious answer

Put out.

press the delete key.

Not on yourself tho

Lacuna, Inc

"meet someone else"

to be reminded how on earth you have up your ex?

have gave

tom d's picture made me choke on my COKE

press the delete key.

it's not in my phone it's IN MY HEAD. i wish she'd just get a new number.

and i have met someone else! which is why this is a problem.

xpost oh yeah oops, that advice was for the original poster, ahem.

"tom d's picture made me choke on my COKE"

how many more times do i need to tell you, it goes through your NOSE. or did you just do an al pacino?

yes, i'd like some advice on erasing my ex's phone number from my head please. i only know two numbers by heart - my mum's, and my ex's. we broke up over 18 months ago. argh!

-- CharlieNo4, Thursday, 13 September 2007 12:42 (12 minutes ago) Link

if you explain the situation to your ex she well may pronto get herself a new phone number and then you will only remember your mum's number! (plus a persistent string of irrelevant integers.)

he will then remember her old number.

Maybe leave violent sexual threats on her mobile so she switches to a new number?

if you explain the situation to your ex

Especially if you call her about 69 times on the same day.

(Please combine with Dom's idea)

he will still remember the number.

Maybe use it in a Lost kinda way, win the lottery and get bad karma?

it's the obvious answer for a reason! some people are good at moving on; others need a new fulfilling relationship to properly throw the old one into context. sometimes that takes years. obviously there's no easy way to meet someone new, but there are things you can do to improve the odds.

xpost

yes but it won't matter anymore!

it's a pretty bloody selfish request though isn't it? "dear ex i never really see, please to change your number so i don't call you when drunk and make a dick of myself kthxbye"...

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it doesn't matter now, unless u r tempted to phone her...

xpost

oic, u r phoning her.

Every time you remember the number get a friend to read out a list of random digits, thus confusing you.

every time you remember the number, DON'T DIAL IT.

Or attack cattle prod to penis which goes off whenever you think/use the number?

(Truth be told, it could go horribly wrong.)

ATTACH. Attack could work as well of course.

Maybe get the ex to fall back in love with you, making this not a problem?

change your number so that if you call her she won't know it's you and will be like 'NEVER TALK TO ME AGAIN YOU FREAK' (could also combine with earlier nath/dom ideas)

wear thick gloves when dialling so you hit the wrong keys by mistake.

Have you tried heavy breathing?

(On the phone or as a form of relaxation)

Maybe get the ex to fall back in love with you, making this not a problem?

-- Dom Passantino, Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:08 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

by training to run a marathon.

NOW WE'RE TALKING

Every time some stranger greets me as if he/she knows me, using my name and referring to personal details of my life, I am reminded of how excellent I am at forgetting memories of people.

enact some heinous, unspeakable taboo -- cannibalism, perhaps -- in a ritual involving her phone number; if you have any shame at all, you'll block it out because it will remind you what a wretched, evil person you are

you'll never forget unless you kill her

Thank you for advice, I am envious of Beth Parker's ability.

Unfortunately I too remember my ex's phone number, birthday, etc

Learn the fucking telephone directory.

Stop caring.

If only,. Ms Misery, if only I could

Positive thinking. Believe it is so, and it will be. That is the secret.

tell her not to answer your calls

Swap the numbers on your phone around so they are in a random order.

Track her down and badger her until she delivers a thorough bludgeoning to your frontal lobe. Then you'll have my mad skillz.

Have you forgotten about her yet?

How about now?

Insert a screwdriver into your brain, jiggle it around till you get the bit that has her phone number, be careful not to get the bit that knows how to walk or digest food or secrete bile or something.

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The guy in Tom D's picture looks like Donald Pleasance

turn your sorrow into art somehow - channel the energy into something constructive

yes! then i'm sure you'll bag wynona ryder!

:O

LRH has the answer

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time will help you forget. but the problem is obviously not remembering her, but still being in love with her. you won't forget her as long as you love her.

Especially if you call her about 69 times on the same day.

-- nathalie, Thursday, 13 September 2007 13:02

69 times? What the hell kinda message is THAT gonna send?

^^^^parapraxis

^^^^parapraxis

You guys!

nah mine wasn't a freudian slip, it was a cool calculated analysis of a situation.

in fact, your misunderstanding of the term parapraxis is in itself a ^^^^parapraxis

>>>> parapraxis

hahahahahaha

Slip of the tongue, indeed.

Any enduring parapraxes of yours, Michael, that you could regale us with?

Jarlrmai OTM.

I remember fighting with this a few years ago. Pangs of guilt due to my thinking - not reminiscing or wistfully pondering - about my ex, what with me being newly married to another person.

I took and threw away all remaining physical evidence of my relationship with her, and that was that.

Your heart will never forget something that has touched it, really. And this is one of the best things about being human.

As for forgetting the phone number, stop repeating it to yourself. It will fade.

can i give you all a figure each so i don't own them anymore?

What about getting rid of bad memories. Ex-lovers and ex-friends only haunt me with my hatred of them. Even worse.

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I love this picture

everything is memory and myth. makes it tough for us people who want to wrangle with the blizzarded barbed wire fences out on the

scrub

this crimson shroud is ironic but the white blood cells really mean it, man

what.

poor ms misery, nobody ever answered her 2007 question. I hate giving oprah meets cosmopolitan new age life coach advice but you need to become the type of person that doesn't have that kind of problems ie. time to reinvent yourself.

"Is it an exaggeration to say that a second language can provide us with a new self? ... Disorientation and confusion are the first step toward breaking down the self so that a new one might be invented; or so that a new sympathy might arise amid one's own newfound vulnerability."
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i def think it's critical that you build a new life ("life structure", i want to say), with new priorities, rather than just have your same old life but with a chunk taken out of it. like find new things to do. this is maybe 'post-break-up' rather than kinda way down the line.