Alright, so to start, I'm fully aware this is bizarre, but bear with me.

So I dated a girl for five years. Near the end, the birth control pill basically killed her sex drive and turned her into a robot. So she went off it. Well, turned out that was the only thing holding her latent bipolar (which, at that point, having known her for almost 10 years, I knew of and had seen, but basically thought 'hey, it's been gone since high school. It's gone. No biggie.) at bay. She blasted into a full-on manic phase, cheated, dumped me, and finally, at my request, saw a psychiatrist, got diagnosed with a ridiculously serious case of bipolar, and got medicated. She's been totally stable again for months now, with the added benefit of no longer being a robot.

Anyway, during the intervening time, I did my pick-up thing. Hell, I got pretty damn good at it. Got to the point where I could go to a bar, just fucking around, and come out with several numbers. Slept with several women. Never really felt a connection, but figured, hey - fuck it, right? This is fun.

Anyway, the ex comes back into the picture, and it's bizarre because she's a completely different person than I've seen in several years. Turns out, medicated, non-pill, non-bipolar her is...well, there's a reason I fell for her in the first place. And having done enough research into bipolar to be fairly confident in saying this - she is a different person than the one who was so fucking terrible. Literally.

So I've more-or-less decided, 'you know what? Fuck it. I'm going to make her fall for me again.' Whether this is for petty revenge or because I actually want to get back together with her I've yet to decide, but I tend to lean toward the latter. Depends on the day. Complicated.

The basic problem being - it's really hard to follow any conventional seduction advice here. This girl knows all of my tricks, knows how I act, and knows when I'm doing something abnormal. Pretty much all the pick-up advice one sees here is geared toward random women - something I have no problem with whatsoever. It just seems that my game falls apart when talking to this girl, because she can call me out on it. Plus, the weird history seems to have her alternating between serious, overt IOIs - literally months of apologies and 'I miss you's, and random weird coldness.

Seem to be building a rapport, she's been texting me several times a day, we've been talking, etc. We're currently on opposite sides of the country, so text/phone/internet are all the tools I have available to me.

I'm going to be accused of oneitis here, but that's not really the case. At this point, it's more of a pride thing - but fuck it. Basic question being: If a serious long term girlfriend literally goes insane, you break up, and then she's medicated back to a place where she's better than you've ever seen her - what does one do or not do to ensure she totally falls hard again?

Half of this is more an experiment than anything else: I can run game on randoms just fine - but how the hell does one get the same results with someone who knows you like the back of their hand?