So I had a pretty bad breakup with a girl about 6 months ago, who dumped me out of nowhere. I was pretty hurt for a while, but I quickly came to the realization that I had ignored red flags and convinced myself she was something she wasn't. She's extremely manipulative and knows how to get exactly what she wants in a relationship. That said, I now have to see her on a fairly regular basis, and it's been clear she's trying to salvage some type of friendly relationship and/or trying to get back with me. So far, I've been basically completely ignoring her, except when completely unavoidable. I've moved on, am seeing other people, etc. but she's just a really shitty person so I enjoy fucking with her head.

My question is: should I randomly be nice to her out of nowhere and feed into what she wants just a bit and then go back to not giving a shit? I literally couldn't care less about getting her back or whatever, and this has become something of a hobby to me because she kinda deserves to see what it's like for the guys she fucks with. I'm just looking for some methods on how to mess with her in my spare time as entertainment. Thoughts?

Nothing good can come from what your trying to achieve. Be better than her, not worse.

if you don't care and you have moved on, then doing this would be completely pointless, obviously you are not over her and you are angry about how things worked out

forget her, if you don't want to be around her because you assosiate negative feelings towards her, then just don't be around her, doing anything but that will simply generate more negative emotions for you and help bring strength to that assosiation (this means more butthurt, more anger, more feeling shitty and depressed, and more negative situations created as a result)

as for her trying to get back on good terms with you, what is wrong with that?, obviously she does not assosiate negative feelings to you or she would want nothing to do with you (unless it meant doing something negative to you), she simply still likes you but does not see a future with you sexually, it is what it is, not nessicarily meant to hurt you or anything

lets compare this to elementary school bestfriends for example, you meet some dude at school, talk to him for a while, play with him, after you get comfortable with him, maybe you start sharing lunch every day cause his mom makes a wicked p+j sammich, and your mom makes some crappy balogne that you hate, but hey, he loves balonge sammiches and you love p+j sammiches, but one day you say, hey, make me a sammich and he says, nah my mom told me I can't share my lunch anymore cause it just isn't right, but I still want to play with you and be your friend, can you really be angry at that guy for still wanting to be your friend? I mean, obviously you want that dudes mom to get in the damn kitchen and make you a god damn p+j sammich, but really is it worth being angry over when you can just go somewhere else and trade a different kid for a p+j sammich? how ever if the kid thinks his bolonge sammich isn't good enough for p+j and never offers to trade, he will never eat that delicious p+j again, and if he can't get his friends mom's sammiches out of his head and move onto a different sammich, then he is needy for that sammich and needs get away from sammiches for a while to clear his head

as for manaipulation, this is what alot of ''game'' is about, living/thinking for yourself, accomplishing your goals and chasing your dreams, a person can only be manipulated if they allow themselves to be manipulated, you say she is a manipulative person, but if so, that would be her problem and not your problem, since this is not what your post suggests maybe you should look inside yourself for more emotional strength, girls in general love a guy with emotional strength, security and self confidence, work on being more strong and secure within yourself man, good things will happen

GOOD LUCK

Exactly what I needed to hear. Thanks guys.