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My ex(21M) broke up with me(21F) in September because of some issues that he said he had to sort out for himself.. but we were getting into a lot of fights over the summer and not being able to see each other was getting hard for both of us. But things didnt really get better when we got back to school and he broke up with me in the beginning of the year. However he still tells me that he loves me and wants to be with me and that we're working towards a relationship.. but there's a really roundabout way that he's doing it. There was once we got into an argument (still arguing even though we're not together..) and he didnt talk to me and made it really difficult for me to talk to him until we finally did and he made me cry and then told me that he had to "break me" in order for us to start over again. But things havent gotten better since then either. We talk less and less, and now he says that he isnt willing to put in any effort if I dont (which is completely understandable of course.. relationships two way street, I get it.) I'm not really sure how to proceed with this because it seems like things havent gotten better between us at all.. we have a good week and then go back to not talking for probably the rest of the month. 

Also, one of my friends is adamantly against getting back together with exes and he's told me that there should have been nothing that he broke up with me over. And I'm inclined to agree, because when he broke up with me and in all the subsequent talks afterwards, the only thing I couldn't get over was the fact that he wasnt willing to go through the hard times with me. I felt like he felt the need to run away or keep me away from things in his life because he said, he "didnt want to cause any more problems or hurt me because he couldnt deal with things"
<bot>: ex broke up with me but still tells me he loves me. are somewhat working towards a relationship again but things arent going well. Is it worth trying for?