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Walk It Through: The Ex Who Keeps Texting

Texts after a breakup, an officer's warning, a harassment order, and messages after it.

After a breakup, an ex sends dozens of messages a day and shows up at work.

Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.

Former partners who never lived together and are not family. A protection from abuse order for dating partners and household members is on its own page.

A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.

Words this turns on

Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.