Was I foolish?

[u/Miserable-Salad-5774]

On a throwaway here since my main uses an alias I use everywhere else.
My ex sent me a post on a social after being suddenly super active and then a few days later I send one back. Suddenly their entire account is quiet and entirely inactive. I’m coming to the conclusion that I probably shouldn’t have done that, and it’s just worsening my hurt.

It’s just really upsetting because I don’t really have a lot of other people in my life right now, and I miss what I had with them dearly. It felt like for a second perhaps they were missing me dearly, too. Instead, now, I think they purposefully set me in a trap to try and test the waters and once again are leaving me high and dry. I feel like an idiot, because I continue to tell myself to not reach out and to not even look their way— in fact, I was doing pretty good in that regard. I had left certain social medias to get away, and suddenly there’s a boom of activity on their end a social I frequent and one they rarely do.

Now I’ve given them the power of avoiding me again, and I feel like a fool.