A habit test

Checking Your Ex's Page

The checking almost never settles anything. That's not a flaw in how you're doing it — it's the point. A page can't answer the question you're actually asking it.

Twelve questions about the habit itself. Not about whether they were good for you.

The 12 questions

1. How often do you look?
2. When in the day does it happen?
3. How do you get to their page?
4. Do you know their posting pattern?
5. What are you actually looking for?
6. How do you feel in the ten minutes afterwards?
7. Have you told yourself this is the last time?
8. Have you blocked, muted, or unfollowed them?
9. Do you check the people around them too?
10. Has anyone else noticed you doing this?
11. How long since it ended?
12. Gut check — what would actually settle it?

Answer all 12 and you get a scored read: what the answers add up to, what it means, and the three that decided it. One payment, nothing renews.