in the days of my youth I recall the term "on the rebound" ( Archived) (12)

does that effect your decision or opinion on whether what someone says or does.. do you avoid those peole on the rebound from a previous relationship or seek them out( like a pretrained ,preowned, broken in model).
What does the term "rebound" mean to you relationship wise.

If someone's still in obvious distress over a broken relationship I won't allow anything serious to happen between us unless or until I'm relatively comfortable they're over it. BTDT and what usually happens is they are just using you for immediate comfort and, when they "get over it," leave you for someone else because they weren't ready for a new relationship in the first place.

A "rebound" to me means finding someone to "fill" the void while still pining for the other partner...

i believe "rebound" is a way to reintroduce yourself to the outside world a transitional relationship not so much to return to as one to emerge from.

I agree with that too...I think it can go both ways

maybe thats why it's hard to judge someones character who is experiencing the rebound... but the "he who hesitates is lost could definietly apply here. course look before you jump apllies also...

Nothing is black and white...


Another way I interperate a rebound is someone who goes to the first person that will have them because they can't handle rejection.

I agree with lion. Rebound to me is someone who must always have a partner. Seek out some one who has just gotten out of a bad relationship. Yes, for friendship only. It is better to be able to talk about the past with someone who has been through the same "horror story" so to speak. I find it helps the healing.

The ralationship term 'rebound' is from ice hockey.
In ice hockey, when you hit the hockey puck and it hits the wall/foot level barrier around the ice-rink, when it richochets off the barrier...that's 'on the rebound'...(probably in other sports too).

So either from leaving a relationship, or being 'chucked' from one...(or slap-shotted from a relationship...or perhaps 'stuffed in an envelope and mailed to lonely-town') would have your careening into space like a hockey puck...which then richochets off a wall...(on the rebound) to then go flinging towards another 'player' (in the hockey sense, or any other sense of the word!)...not by choice, and not by deliberate, pro-active selection or primal attraction...not necessarily by lust, or in depth interest...just by being flung from one end of the universe to the other...completely out of control...and you end up in front of whoever happens to be there.

so it's not exactly self-determination...

It's just that you'er a pinball...sure, you may bounce around a while, ring a few bells, light up a few lights...but pinballs ultimately get dropped. (Until the game continues with another pinball...)

Don't be a pinball.

You're not a hockey puck: so don't get treated like one, and don't act like one.