Have you ever broken up with your ex on really good conditions mutually? So much so that you are friends now?

[Anonymous]

Recently saw a sketch on this topic on YT.
Both the guy and the girl were shaking hands for breakup and were really happy about it. The girl was helping the guy get a new girl with him. Both of them were like really close friends.

What do you think about it then?

[NathanDavis]

I have only done it in very good terms and by mutual -well thought and through- decision...

and yes, two of them are very good and close friends of mine today, and a big reason and factor for that is that we met and we were a couple so long ago (age 16 and age 20) that we just see each other as good longtime friends, more than anything else

while with the other, more recent and older ex-girlfriends, we are still in touch a friendly but we are not as close as friends to be best friends or anything like that, and we also took very different paths and live far away from one another

[ChrisWhiskeys2]

Never.
I only date women that I'm really attracted to. I get addicted to her and the relationships last a long time, I really commit.
It has to end in complete disaster for me to give up, and even then I occasionally forget and still try to get back together. LoL!
There's never been a healthy breakup for me ever.

[random_girl95]

I think anything can happen in relationships. Seems like in this video both girl and the guy wanted to break up so it wasn't a choice of one person. That's why there wasn't any drama and stuff as usually happens in breakups. However, I don't know if it was just for the video they acted that way or they just feel like that in real life as well.

[Asker]

Yeah. When the girl brought the topic of breakup indirectly, the guy guessed it. He was like just shake hands on the mutual breakup and all. Both of them were happy, about it.

They are actors, but I was just wondering its practical application. At the end, it was the girl that was left hanging by the feeling for the guy, but she found that all she needed was a good closure, so happy ending you can say...

[random_girl95]

I guess you are right. She was searching for a partner but in the end because it didn't work out she found a good friend. However I don't the part of introducing him to a new girlfriend can be applied in real life.

[Asker]

Yes, I also think so. That was a bit stretching.
But hey, that too can happen if everything is cool. Can't deny the possibility.

[random_girl95]

@the_shadow_dweller Agreed. Hope that if something like this ever happens to me I could be as "cool" as the girl and stay friends with the other person.

[Asker]

To be honest I also hope to be as 'cool' as the guy was.

[random_girl95]

@the_shadow_dweller We will see if it happens lol. However be positive that you will still handle the situation in your own way which will turn out to be the best one.

[Chiarac2003]

My boyfriend is friends with my ex’s. So I seem to see them a lot.

[OlderAndWiser]

Even if you can remain on good terms, eventually you will both find new partners and your new partners will be suspicious of the fact that you continue to see your ex on a regular basis.

[mandyfire98]

I have personally split with an ex that I still talk to all the time. It was a mutual split and we still hang out from time to time and get along just as well as we always did. He's one of my best friends.

[Shamalien]

Tried to do this. Seemed okay at first and I thought we’d agreed on no contact for a while, then she reached out and dragged me into some bullshit and just flipped on me for not “checking in”. So I checked in a few days after that and she once again did everything possible to drag me into some shit. I dodged everything but then she told me to go. So I haven’t reached out. Been 1.5 months

[IMuser]

In general, i think it's more beneficial to directly cut the connection: can you look the girl you loved as a friend again? In most of the cases, it is no.

[Кураж]

Well, I go back to sleeping with my ex whenever we are single, so we could say that something like that has happened to me.
We just don't work as a committed couple.

[ShadowMonarch]

Why would they break up if everthing was on good terms?

[Asker]

Sometimes friendships can work like a charm, but relationships cannot. I think because of this.

[ShadowMonarch]

To be honest I haven't heard of a phenomenon like this... I mean you can be friends before a relationship.. but you can't be friends after a relationship

[ohshee]

You start out as friends. So if a d when you end it. There no reason you can't ended as friends

[globetrotter22]

I would say this is better phrased as breaking up on “understandable” terms vs “good” terms.

[exitseven]

I see this on TV sometimes but I cannot ever imagine it happening to me.

[Agape93]

Yeap! Still my best friend

[pink-jilly]

He’s my work partner 🙃

[moonpie89]

I think maybe once. We don't talk though