Hi Betterdays, I deleted every single one of the 2000 or so messages on my phone. 100% without doubt if i had read even one of those messages i would have crawled back to him by now. It is really really dangerous for your emotions re reading old messages. I think part of it is a control thing, for me a few months ago i was re-reading, repeatly emails that I had sent him ending our relationship. I could not stop reading them and I memorised every word. I thnk that I was doing this a form of staying in control (subconsiously) as at the time I felt out of control. Fortunatly this need to read them has now passed. I would really avoid all messages and his social media where at all possible if I were you. Good luck X*X