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I think that it depends largely on how long the relationship lasts. My last boyfriend and I had a really strong connection, but we were only together for 3 months. After we broke up, things were exactly the same, just with the romantic and sexual elements removed. He's now my best friend
Well you can either be friends with someone or in love with them, never both as the pain will be unbearable. Also as long as an Ex is in your life your love life can't really move forward, he/she will see you with someone else and all of sudden want you more than ever and this will cause confusion and feelings will get hurt unnecessarily.
I'm not going to say it not possible. I'm just not going to stay silent about what I want. If she is I'm just not good enough and I'm actually already planning on moving. I know what I want every time I'm with her. I'll just make it worse if I have to stand idle and watch. If you know what you want to for it. Don't wait half a year. That's how I missed 9 years. Now another half a year for a maybe be friends. I'm sorry but hell no I can't do that.
I'm friends with 2 of my ex's. You need to be away from each other for a while but just because it doesn't work out doesn't mean you have to hate that person and lose the friendship. My last ex I tried but I guess he never got over me breaking it off and not giving in to him wanting me back. So he wasn't always so nice when we had to talk about our kid.
Yeah, I’m friends with one of them cause he said he was sorry for the things he did and I forgave him and remained friends with no problem, the rest never admitted their mistakes and never talked again so that’s that, lol. If they admit their mistakes I don’t have a problem being their friends regardless of them cheating and hurting me in the past, I accept growth.
I've managed it, it was strained at first but we were friends for a long time before we dated. Things were difficult for a very long time (for me, she just moved on and never showed any indication of difficulty). We've drifted apart now but still keep in contact.
Talk is cheap really, I mean it really depends on why you'd break up you can remain civil but I dont see why you'd want someone that you were just romantically involved with to be your friend right after, I think it can happen but years and time later. When you are a different person but for the better.
If you can easily discriminate between the feeling of being friends, being attached and being in a relationship, you can go for it. Why I am saying this is because with my point of view, after you get into a relation with someone, you can't be normal friends if you can't remember how you felt for him before you came into relation (or can you?). It's difficult (at least) for me to roll back to those "just Friends" feeling once you have felt more than that for a person.
it depends on why you guys breakup. For example, if he tells you that he is in love with someone else. Would you feel comfortable being friends? My ex-said it to me too. He told me I don´t love you but I wanna be friends, but why? it´s not relevant at all you see.
I see maybe after years could be possible but it is not like we broke up let´s be friends.
It's normally very hard to be friends with your ex. Simply because it gets awkward, without all the kisses and sex and all that you do in a relationship. It just gets really weird.
SOME people can manage to become friends with their ex, but that's an extreme exception... It all comes down to how they handle it.
You can but it's hard. It's hard because if you don't continue the respect for what made you guys close in the first place, then the friendship will deteriorate. If you guys have cute little traditions or things you do together, you shouldn't drop ALL of them. Otherwise the friendship will suffer and it will feel terrible for both of you for a lot longer than it would need to.
I think it’s possible to be civil and that really should be the end of that- especially if you start seeing other people eventually. It’s easy to say we’ll stay friends but it’s not fun for anyone when there are more than two parties involved. You could be jeopardizing potential or future relationships down the road for yourself.
I personally think it’s hard to be with an ex as a friend because you guys had a lot memories and you loved that person. So my story right now I was with my ex for 7 months then broke up but continued to talk trying to be “friends” but we still had that connection of being more than friends. Being flirty, the cute names, or whatever we did when we were together. We still had our arguments/fights just like a relationship would. So I think it’s just a saying to stay attach and open. But everyone diff. Maybe take a year or so no contact with that person and then try to be friends.
If your breakups were due to fighting, probably not. If they were mutual or because of some outside force (like one person moving away) then sure you can remain friends.
Like pervertedjester said, if you two clean break and then miss the friendship after a while, then be friends.
It's within the realm of possibility. If you both have had the conversation about it then, it's possible. The only factor is the circumstances of your break up. However, it might be difficult to maintain initially as there will be an awkward phase. I personally have kept my exes close by because they add variety. They also have shown to be sometimes more reliable than a girlfriend, from my experience, due to not needing to reciprocate too much.
I could never do that. Its a burnt bridge. I have nothing but hate and disgust for my ex. She slept with a guido douche. I hope to never see her again because of the angry feelings i have repressed. I wish to outlive her when we're older so i can take a huge diarrhea on her gravestone. Im going to paint that thing brown with grandpa splatter
Well just as long as you two remain friends during the relationship with damn near the only thing making it a relationship is sex you should be fine with going back because any if all relationships have the possibility of going further... all I’d say is don’t hurt each other intentionally and everything will be fine
Heck no. More drama in future with potential future boyfriend.
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Depends what kind of relation if it was really short or just for sex it's possible else memory's and feelings will hinder the friendship and can and most likely will ruin future relations, cuz no one likes a partner that hangs out with a ex or talks about them all the time.
I am friends with most of my ex's. I have been known to go out to coffee, or engage them on social media. The only issue that I have is the whole memory thing, somethings can not be forgotten, and as I have done some interesting stuff in the bedroom I sometimes wonder what they think of when they see me.