Can you stay friends after you break up?

I guess it always depends on how you broke up. I your case tough, I feel that you were (and still are) pretty reasonable and you won't let your emotions get the better of you (you could hate him for letting you down). In general, I think that if a couple split amicably, it could be that afterwards they get along perfectly as friends. If on the other hand a couple solit because only one of the two wants out, then there's almost always trouble. If staying friends after a breakup is such a wise decision I don't know, although in your case it is definitely the best one, considering that you have kids together and will surely thank you for that one day. For a couple that wasn't married it can be very different, because the future partners of those two can feel very threatened and might not know how to categorize this friendship

Well feelings of your family are really sensible as they love you truly and do not want to be in the same hell as you have been during your marriage. Well when you have kids with person it is difficult to remain aloof for the sake of kids. But somehow I also feel that after breakups it is difficult to be friends as breakups come after hard feelings.

if your ex teats you badly why are you going out drinking with him? I think its important to remain friends if you have children but it should be for the purpose of keeping things good for the children, I dont think you should be as freindly as you seem to be.

friendship with an ex is not impossible,and it is a healthy relationship when you end up as friends with your ex..Having no grudges to any one wether he is your ex or not is a healthy living, you can live happily everyday and make life to the fullest.

Hi there, I think friendship with an ex is possible. I do have a few. But it depends on what has happened between the two of you. My first ex-husband is no friend of mine, because he is not a nice man. Things have come between us, to big and not spoken about. You say your husband got help, he wants to be a fahter for the kids. That is a good thing. Try to be honest, don't ever let him treat you bad again, keep your eyes open, keep your ears open. People don't easily change, they never really do actually, they grow, if they live like they should. Asure him that all you want is friendship and give it a go. Ex-lovers can be very good friends, because they know you. But not every ex is the same. The ones I get along with are the ones who aren't afraid of taking there share in what went wrong.

YESSssssss.... It IS possible to have a happy relationship with your ex so long as you didn't split up for reasons dangerous reasons. My wife and I see each other pretty often and I just had dinner at her place two days ago. We are friends now, no more romance. But being friends is just fine. :-)

i believe that friendship is a relation which we make from our heart and a relation which comes from your heart can never forgets and nobody can 100% seperate a friend is always there in your memories his/her good things, bad things and every moment which has spended together remember so i dont believe that friendship can break for lifetime.......!

Well its perfectly fine if you have kids. I mean, your parents have good intentions of course, but is much easier on the kids this way if you remain friends instead of enemies.

Obvious, no comments! Some people still are friends after break up... But others are hard!!! Don't say a word after a broken relationship! I am a teen of Brazil, it's a little difficult for me to say in English here in MYLOT, but I love it! I have break up 3 girls and now I am friend of them normally! No problems!

Yes...I can stay friend but though it wil be too hard in the first month!!!