Does my ex still love me?

I'll draw a three-card spread for this.

The signals here don't read as someone still in love with you — they read as someone still defended, with a third party's shadow shaping whatever comes next.

Past is King of Swords reversed: the dynamic ran on cold words and intellectual control. Someone used sharpness where softness would have helped, and that pattern still colors how the breakup sits. Present is Nine of Wands reversed: both sides are exhausted behind their walls. The defense isn't conviction, it's habit — anyone watching from outside would call this stubborn more than loving. Future is Three of Cups reversed, which under these conditions points to a third wheel — a friend, a family member, a new person, or social pressure — sitting in the way of any reunion or celebration.

If mutual friends have warm signals about you to share, the third party is what's stopping those signals from reaching you. If your mutual friends have nothing — silence, hedging — then the withdrawal itself is the answer: they're not stewing in love, they're going quiet on everyone.

One thing to do in the next 48 hours, no contact initiated: watch the public signals — what they're posting, who they're with, how mutual friends shift when the ex's name comes up. Note what comes back without fishing for it. The Three of Cups reversed says the truth of this lives in the social texture around them, not in a conversation you start.

Want this spread drawn as a picture, or the reading saved to your journal?