I think it would be a mistake to contact him. I don't know your situation but I still think that a week is much too soon. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and it sounds like he could use some absence to grow fonder.

I've been watching your posts over the last couple weeks or so. DO NOT CONTACT YOUR EX. Not only will it set you back emotionally, but your ex has been pretty clear that he does not want a relationship with you anymore. You tried to get him to be FWB, and he didn't come back, you tried to play jealous games by telling him about the strip club dude, and he didn't come back, you have now gone NC, and he has not come back. I know how you feel. I think all of us know how you feel. We've all been there, and you are going to have to do what all of us have done or are doing... You need to let go of him being a part of your life and work on rebuilding your life without this man in it. It sucks, it hurts and it takes time, but contacting him is only going to hurt you more, because there is nothing he is going to say that will make you feel better, and and he is not going to say what you want to hear. Despite how you feel right this second, you are a STRONG young woman. You CAN get through this. You have support... The people here, your family, I'm sure you have friends, also. Maybe see if you can start some counseling just to get some extra support.

YOU CAN DO THIS!

agree with SJA. Your ex is done. Don't contact him - it will only make him more resolute in his decision.

So I got weak and texted him "hi" and he replied back with "hey, how are you?" and I responded and i asked if he wanted to talk and he asked about what, or if it was about us specifically and I got a call and was on the phone for an hour and he said "well i guess you don't want to talk." and then I called him and we talked for an hour.

Maybe that was a stupid choice but I did it :/

I am sorry that keeping up with him is your only idea here. Some of us need to have the same thing happen over and over during a period of years and even decades.
The outcome? A wasted life.I am 62. Looking back not one lover was worth me not paying attention to my own life in preference of the so called relationship. I have ruined my time on this earth, thrown it away on bullshit. It isn't fun to live with that... you have options!
Many of us take what seems to be forever to see the forest for the trees.
You are asking for nothing but pain.i hope you have a better inspiration soon.

I am taking care of myself. I am working on myself. I may be making the wrong decision when it comes to contacting him but I know he still wants to be with me. I can sense it and i can feel it. Maybe he is being a baby and won't admit it and I shouldn't keep trying but i feel like i owed it to myself. I want to be 100% sure that I gave it my all when I moved on. Maybe some of you won't agree but it is my last time trying.

You gotta do what you feel is right. We don't know him, you do. All we can do is tell you what we are seeing from your posts and advise you what we would do. I hope you don't regret your decisions down the road. You'll figure it out.

at the end of the day, you have to do what you feel you need to do. it doesnt matter who does or doesnt agree with you.

i think everyone here, myself included, who advise people to go No Contact are just coming from a place of caring. We've been there too, and we dont want to see others get hurt the same way we've been hurt. Did I always follow No Contact? no, especially not right after discovering my husband's (soon to be EX) affairs. and unfortunately, I learned the hard way that it is far better for my healing to avoid contact with him, except when necessary pertaining only to our son.

so when people say, Dont do it, it's not that we are going to judge you or something bad if you Do contact him. People just dont want to see you hurt more, because we've been through it, we remember how hard it hurts. We want good things for you. Sometimes it takes that final conversation to get the closure you need, sometimes it only makes it worse (which is its own type of closure). But regardless, we're here for you, no matter what happens.
((((HUGS))))

No Contact helps me generally

Occassionally I break it

we have even sat and had coffee together.....UGH

But attemps at friendship with someone who has no genuine care or regard for you are only confusing and do not help the grieving process

Self protection from someone who wantonly and deliberately caused you as much pain as they could...should be your only goal