i see nothing wrong with it. i mean c'mon. why not??? Just friends.

I believe you can still be friends with your ex. Depending how it was that you guys broke up. I'm still friends with my ex. Our brake up was a descison we both made together. Even though it was hard for us to leave each other. We knew it was for the best. I was going to college in another state and he was already in college where we both met. We knew we had to grow and mature more. And if its meant to be then we shall try again. Hes my Best friend and I love him!

I echo a lot of the previous comments when I say: Really, it all depends on how you broke up in the first place. if it was painful and messy, then I don't think it's the best idea until you BOTH are completely over it. Then again, I can't really stay "just friends" with a man I haven't even dated!

I think that one should distance oneself from an ex, if there is still some interest being directed from them to you. I am still friends with an ex, but he lives in another state, so all is good.

I think the only way you should be talking to your ex, is if you have a child with them. I struggled with my boyfriend talking to his ex the first few years of our relationship. It was horrible. They didn't have a kid together, but were together for 7 years. Finally he stopped talking to her, but she pops up every now and then. We've been together over 5 years now.

i think it's ok to stay friends with your ex as long as there are no feelings left. i dated a guy for 2.5 years then moved away..all the feelings i had for him eventually left, but when we were together i was able to tell him anything. id like to be able to be good friends with him, but his feelings are still there. i do have a boyfriend that ive been with for 4 months..me and my ex talk occasionally, but when he starts getting sappy, i just get off the phone.

On the subject of new relationships and maintaining old ones with your ex, I will say that I am not at all what one would consider the norm. I tend to go against the grain and I am a firm believer in healthy platonic relationships with the opposite sex regardless of the history. Through out my life the majority of my real friends have been males and there have been very few females that I would consider real friends. There has been atleast two of my guy friends that I have dated and one that satisfied a few drunken sexual needs. Please be advised that in all these situations there was never a boyfriend or girlfrined in either corner being gilted. Even with those experiances all of us have been able to move on and maintain healthy and some not so healthy relationships with new partners. This was all done while perserving our friendship. I am not at all saying that you should disrespect your new partner if they are uncomfortable with you maintaining ties with your ex. What I am saying is that sometimes there may be circumstances that you cannot change and there is no reason for you to pull your hair out trying. I enter every relationship with the understanding that there is something about this person worth having them in my life and if I am unable to atleast speak to them upon the dissapation of our relationship well to me that means they were not worth having around to begin with. The key to all of this is trust, communication, and understanding. Maintain an open mind and heart and everything will work out. If for some reason your partner is masking the true nature of his or her friendship with thier ex, well let me

I think that its ok to be friendly and talk every blue moon but I don't think you should be asking them for advice going to see each other and talking to one another's family members and such. That's the same situation I'm in right now. My ex is really trying to get me back into his life but I don't feel that its right, he knows I'm in a relationship and I'm happy. Also you should try to put yourself in your significant others shoes would you want them hanging, or talking to their ex?

i dont think its okay because if u were once intimate with each other and u both hav moved on in other relationships sooner or later those feelings will start to come out again and it will just cause alot of problems for ur current relationship

i dont think its okay because if u were once intimate with each other and u both hav moved on in other relationships sooner or later those feelings will start to come out again and it will just cause alot of problems for ur current relationship

Hmm. i personnaly believe that it is okay for someone to still be friends with an ex as long as there is no emotional feeling still between him or her.Though, if things were left on bad terms its obviously not ok to be "friends" with the ex because he or she might be stressed with their new relationship and find it twice as hard to fully move on when their ex continues to be in the picture.

I think it's alright to be friends with an ex as long as there are no emotional ties to them anymore. I still talk to my ex boyfriend and there isn't any awkwardness between us when we date other people, but that's because we don't think of each other that way and have talked about our relationship and the reason in which we're not together anymore. Personally, I adore a lot of his girlfriends that he's had over the past years and there is absolutely no jealously involved. Yet again, this was puppy love we're talking about!

PDZXXo comment1 ,

I think that you shouldn't stay friends with your ex. They will just cause stress on your relationship. Even if you are just friends. If you care about the person that you are with now you shouldn't need that past memory in your life. You don't want the feelings for them to come back, do you? And usually if they are still around then those feelings do come back.

i'm still friends with my ex and it's been cool. we were together on and off for six years and we finally decided to stay friends "just friends" and now we even talk about our dates with other people. he's there for me whenever i need him. none of us are serious with other people right now, but i wouldn't be jealous if he were. i would want him to be happy.