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How to handle a hot/cold man

Tomi Dean Lynch
3 min readSep 12, 2022

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I searched Google for the term “hot and cold man” and received 1,470,000,000 results (0.57 seconds). If you’re currently dating a man who swoons over you one minute and seems to forget that you exist the next, you are most assuredly not alone!

What does it mean to run hot and cold?

The term is used to describe a love interest who is inconsistent in their words and behavior as it relates to their feelings and the relationship in general but the issues can manifest in several different ways.

It may be that when you’re together, he is passionate, caring, and fully engaged but when you’re apart, he’s too busy to text or call or simply keeps the conversation on a friendly level.

He may spend days, weeks, or months calling every day and seeing you every chance he gets, then, without warning, the contact stops completely for a period and then picks up like nothing ever happened.

He may simply behave like he’s committed but introduces you to his inner circle as his “friend”.

These behaviors leave you confused and concerned that he may be playing you.

Why do men go hot and cold?

He may not be certain about the relationship

He enjoys your company and isn’t ready to lose you, but he isn’t ready to…

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Tomi Dean Lynch
Tomi Dean Lynch

Written by Tomi Dean Lynch

Writer of Romance/Erotica, Extreme coffee drinker, transplanted Jersey girl, adopted mother of parrots.

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