It’s about attention. I see women (who players and playboys have flippantly, even rudely discarded) chasing after them.
It’s the damdest thing to my sensibilities that they will go blowing up the guy’s phone...it’s pitiful really. These women have no self respect, the men do not respect them, and yet the women keep chasing.
These women become part of that player’s ecosystem...his personal fan club. They become the booty calls, the ones who get the same text (to see who responds first at 1:30am), and they ‘get’ to sex him up or pick his drunk ass up from time to time. I’ve seen my buddies show off whilst doing this. It’s hilarious, and sad. These guys don’t give a crap about these women...but the women clearly have less than zero self respect....but it gives some external ego validation to these men, and they are reluctant to give up the eco system or fan club.
Unless the OP can easily get this exgf into his eco system (assuming he is emotionally disengaged enough to and assuming he would like to) he should not respond.
Why?
Any attention is validation to this woman. I used to watch women text my exBF to insult me, insult us, insult him, say inflammatory things...and sometimes he’d respond. Of course that churns up the old interaction, it creates drama (which frankly many men LOVE), and it creates at some level emotional response & re-engagement, which is why the woman reached out in the first place. Duh.
Silence is the only way to leave someone twisting, wondering. Silence is the best way IMHO for OP.