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If you are the one who broke up the relationship

Are you trying to maintain a friendship to assuage your guilt over the break up? That's not a good reason to maintain a friendship.

How will your next partner feel about you spending time with the guy or girl who was sharing your bed last summer?

Don't you know your ex has some hope of eventually reuniting with you?

If you are the one who didn't want the break up

Be honest with yourself; aren't you wanting to hang on to this person in hopes of them realizing how much they miss you and need you in their life?

When you try to move forward, how should your new partner feel about the fact that you are still spending time with the guy or girl who was your sexual partner three months ago?

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To me, all of the above arguments make sense, but I have only once tried to maintain a friendship with a former girlfriend. I broke up because, after two years, she did not love me and was not a dedicated girlfriend and I did not want to waste the rest of my life on her. We had a tremendous span of common interests and we could have been good friends if we had not first been lovers. After a few months of seeing her just sporadically, I realized that I as trying to hang on to the hope that she would want me. I realized that what I was doing was pathetic and I simply let go of her.

Have you ever tried to be just platonic friends with a former friends with benefits, bf/gf. or spouse? How did it work for you?

I've been crushing on and trying to flirt with this girl from my school for a little while now. I'm pretty good at making her smile.

On Friday she and I were talking after class and we started talking about music, so I asked what music she liked and she decided to play some from her phone. The song was stereo by Adam Levine. A love song that I knew from the radio that I always listen to.

I dont remember how it came up but she asked me if I planned on going to the next dance. I told her that "I normally don't but I've never had anyone to go with before". (I was trying to vaguely imply that I would go with her if she liked me). the question was out of the blue and I need to know if that's a question that a girl would ask their crush, or if a girl would show that song to someone they liked.

Is she treating me like a friend or is she trying to flirt with me?

We've only been talking for about a week now, so given how long we've been talking, do you think her behavior is supposed to be platonic or does she like me too?