If you've read any advice on how to get your ex girlfriend back, then you may have heard of the no contact rule.
If the advice you've read so far has not mentioned no contact in terms of getting your ex girl back, then it's most likely not a good source at all.
So what is this mysterious no contact rule? It seems counter-intuitive.
How does no contact help? Let me briefly clear it up for you.
NO CONTACT means exactly that - NO CONTACT! When you enter the no contact rule after a break up, you do the following things:

• Do not contact your ex girlfriend via text, phone, nor email.
  
• Do not stalk her on Facebook or MySpace.
  
• Do not visit your old haunts in hopes of running into her there.
  
• You will disappear from her world for a while, the minimum of at least a month or longer.
  

Okay, so now we cleared up what the no contact rule is and what to do and what not too, let's get on with how no contact will help you to get your ex girlfriend back:

• No contact gives you time to gather your emotions
• Gives your ex girlfriend time to gather her emotions.
  
• Gives you both time to cool off and start thinking rationally.
  
• Keeps you from doing and saying things that will piss her off.
  
• Keeps you from terrorizing her with repeated phone calls, texts, etc.
  
• Keeps you two from fighting and arguing.
  

Here are the benefits of the no contact rule:

• Gives you time to work on you.
  
• Gives you time to decide if you really want to get your ex girlfriend back.
  
• Forces her to find out what life is like without you in it.
  
• Forces her to remember good things about your relationship.
  
• Forces her to MISS YOU!

Can you see the logic in how the no contact rule will help you to get your girlfriend back ? Of course, this rule is not the only step or strategy, and using it by itself without a proper plan can have dire consequences.