The letter “X” symbolizes an unknown number of a mathematical equation. The same character has also been able to represent an archeological someone of each and every girl’s great history of a relationship. Like every fallen empire of the history books that we have read, most of the ended relationships we had with our ex’s would end with a tragic war. Through the time and experiences along with it, what are the reasons for the paradigmatic feud between old lovers?

For a girl who just broke her heart by the once perfect man of her dreams, the city as small as Cebu suddenly turns into an empty battlefield that is filled with emotional landmines, one wrong step and it will blow you into pieces. She just cannot let her ex see her with some drastic change from the way she was before. As I began to look into the catalysts of this war, I tried to talk to my best friend named Flordeliza. She told me that one reason that resonates the warfare between ex’s are their memories of each other.  Both the good and bad memories are like perfect reagents for a chemical formula that could leave a small detonator within a girl's mind, which by any second can blast her subconscious mind into nothing but a wreck.

On the other hand, Janet (a marketing expert and a good friend), made an excellent point on one of the reasons that could spark the bloodbath between both parties. She was able to indicate that love would evaporate alongside with respect if there was no proper closure to begin with. Like a wound added with a salt, the things that were not communicated and cleared by the partners before are like time bombs that were set to self destruct by the time that the relationship would end. Most of the time, the usual things that were argued over by the couples can definitely take the war at a higher pace, and usually can cause a lot of casualties along the way,

I tried to look into this topic as what I see as a paradigm within the locals, the war could not be as hard to avoid. Each of the ex’s should try to remind themselves that a relationship has a fine line that divides pleasure and pain, in which it was a stroke of the path that they have signed up in the first place.  Like a quilt and a parchment, a smooth and easy talk between parties and a proper closure is a form of a treaty between two parties to try and stop the wreckage of the war.