I totally feel your pain and struggle with this. Something I began doing in the beginning of December that worked for me was that I just got completely frustrated and just had a real desire to be done with this whole situation as it's gone on for so long. I then started telling myself "It's done. It's over. I don't even care anymore. This is ridiculous. I don't have time for these games. I'm letting go of all hopes and expectations now. I'm tired of feeling this way. I want to let go of the situation now." I seriously repeated this to myself over and over each time I'd cry, or felt myself becoming angry about it all, or started thinking about him and the situation. It started to work for me a few days later. The hopes began to fade at a rapid pace. The emotional attachments did as well. It really does work but I think one has to get to that place where they are just so sick and tired of feeling the way they do and just waiting and waiting while the other person is just living their life NOT waiting for us.
It's like after I started doing that, a few weeks later this (expletive) begins communicating a lot more often, basically daily, asking me all kinds of questions like if I'm seeing someone etc. Then just last week asks me if we can mend things. And now, it's back to hardly any communication at all. Now I'M REALLY REALLY sick and tired of it and I will begin telling myself the same things as I did before and add in there "HE IS NOT EVER GOING TO CHANGE! NEVER!"..........and the next time the prick comes around filling me up with more empty words I won't even CONSIDER the words.
So yeah, repeating something to yourself sort of like trains your emotions and subconscious mind and honestly, it feels so freeing. If our predictions are to come to pass, they will either way, but at least you can be free from the emotional attachments to the situation that tend to slowly eat us up inside over time. Each time I feel like I need to get a reading or an update........I just ask myself "Is this dude REALLY worth all that? Not so much. I could be using this money on myself or saving it instead of squandering it on him." Essentially, that's what we are doing. We are spending money on these POIs and exes. Might as well just give them the money directly lol. It would be the same exact thing. I understand getting updates every 3 or 6 months, but I'm talkin about the binges and weekly and even monthly updates. We could be using that on ourselves instead of spending it on them. They don't appreciate it anyway LOL. They'd never appreciate the fact that we stressed so much over them that we called psychics. They'd just think we were lunatics. LOL.