My ex “K” just broke up with me. She said she would like to still be friends, though, and since the breakup was friendly, I gladly said I was fine with that.

  • janNatan@lemmy.ml
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    17 minutes ago

    Yeah, just one. He left me for religious reasons (we’re both men). Took me a long time to actually get over him, but I moved on and married and such. The three of us hang out sometimes.

    I do kinda wish I could convince him to be a little less religiously wacky. Oh well.

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    3 hours ago

    You both need a time off, stop or make interactions really “rational and controlled”. It takes time to shift to different dynamic between you two.

    Once you both (or at least one of you) get new partners, things will be more promising for a genuine friendship.

    Otherwise, lingering feelings or “emotionally weak” days seriously risk ruining the relationship and make things permanently awkward.

    source: my own experience. I am best friends with my ex. And lived the process myself.

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    3 hours ago

    Yeah. We text occasionally and she might visit on the way through the state soon. It’s not a close friendship but we like staying in touch

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    5 hours ago

    All of them yes. I make it a point to get back on friendship terms so there aren’t any open wounds or resentments festering. I want to wish them the best, so I do.

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Im actually the kind to say when you break up move on. Still being friends is a recipe for many disasters. Especially once you’re in a long term or get married

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    5 hours ago

    One easy way to avoid this predicament is moving across the ocean. You never have to particular relatives either. Move across the ocean immediately. Never turn back

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        14 minutes ago

        Lmao my mom was just asking me abt people from kindergarten who I was never even friends with they’ll still try to reel you in. Crazy people shit

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    8 hours ago

    I have some exes that I wanted to and could be friends with (one I was for several years). But it just doesn’t fly with a new domestic partnership. I can tell my current girlfriend that I’m going to see female friends, but going out with friends who I’ve previously had sexual relations with is stretching it. I wouldn’t want my girlfriend to do that and so I won’t do it to her.

    It makes me a bit sad, but I have effectively ended those friendships by no longer agreeing to seeing them.

    I also have exes that I wouldn’t wish on my biggest enemy and I avoid them like the plague.

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    7 hours ago

    I still talk to my ex-wife since we had kids together. They are adults now so it’s a lot less that we talk but still amicable.

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    11 hours ago

    not really anymore, but only for usually drifting apart from old friends reasons. it is hard (for me) to maintain friendships when the other party lives thousands of kilometers away, and everyone is too poor and busy to travel.

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    8 hours ago

    I posted this a while ago, but my ex and I ended up on a 7 hour time difference and that level of LDR is really hard, so our final date was updating each other’s dating profiles. It was very amicable, simply recognizing that it was the situation not the person that caused us to not be together.