5 signs the no contact rule is working

It was a rainy Sunday afternoon—because of course, it was—when my friend Lily decided to unfollow Kevin on Instagram.

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It’d been two months since their breakup, which was muddled by the fact that they were still in constant contact. Their conversations were a strange mix of small talk, nostalgia and the obligatory “I miss you” drunken text.

Meanwhile, half of our friend group had spotted Kevin on Hinge, leading to a collective wince when Lily would mention his name. She was in full-blown denial: “He’s allowed to be on Hinge, we’re not together,” she’d protest, as if that justified him sleeping over the night before.

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It put us in the precarious position of having to pretend like she was rooted in reality.

But then, on this particularly gloomy Sunday, reality came indeed. Lily stormed into brunch and declared she was done with Kevin for good (cue the Bloody Marys).

The tipping point? He had deleted all their photos from a trip to Greece, where they’d once discussed kids and marriage and a vacation home on Martha’s

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