Can exs be friends?

yes exs can be friends, i'm friends with more then half my exs, i've learned tht some time just cuz the relationship didnt work out it dosent mean tht it has to end there. there are some people tht make better friends then partners. as long as u dont end ur relationship in a bad note then its posible to still be in a relationship with tht person its just a different type of relationship, as friends and u never know sometimes it might be just wht was missing and u never know it could result in getting back together

I am one of those people that tries to stay friends with my ex's if possible. I don't have very many ex's as I tend to choose my relationships carefully and they almost always last quite a while. My current boyfriend, and soulmate, I have been with for a little over 3 years. During that time we broke up about a year ago for a bout 6 months but remained very good friends throughout. If we had not done that I do not think we would be back together today. I feel very confident in saying that I know he is my soulmate and hopefully I will never have another ex as I want to spend the rest of my life with this one!

I've remained friends with pretty much all my ex's...whether its a long term relationship or a weekend fling or former bedbuddy type thing..staying friends is what I ususally do..Reason being (particularly with former long terms bfs) is because there was SOMETHING that attracted us to each other in the first place...why shoudl that change just because intimately things didnt work out ya know..

that really depends, i mean if you too broke up in good terms i think it will be okay to be friends with you ex for you have settled you differences and moved on with you own life but if you two parted ways badly i think it will be too awkward to be friends. :)

It's really difficult, but it is not imposibble, depends on how you break up with your mate, you can love one person at the time, but you can't have it as yours on the other hand, you should talk with him/her to have them as your friend

I believe it to be possible to remain friends after a breakup, depending on how it happened. There are certain cases in which people can and will remain friends, but others in which the two will hate eachother for any reason that they decide is a good enough reason. A grand example of ex's being friends after the fact, I am still great friends with Ariel, an ex of mine, the reason behind that relation ending was that we both decided we were better friends than partners.

Becoming an ex simply means you found out that as a relationship it wasn't working out. I do believe people being intellegent human beings can remain friends. It all depends on the people involved. Also what caused the breakup. There are a lot of things to consider. But bottom line I do believe in some cases that ex's can still remain friends.

Well, it depends on the people. I couldn't be friends with my first ex even though we had two kids together. Our break up was too painful so there was no way I could be his friend. We were civil to each other after awhile, because of the kids. But as far as being friends, no way. My second husband and I have recently broken up and we are still talking on the phone as friends and he has come to see me and I have gone to see him. I moved to another city when I left him. We didn't break up because of anything that he or I did wrong. We broke up because I couldn't live in the city that he lived in anymore. I was miserable and wanted to come back to the city I was living in before. So we have remained friends. Another situation is with my sister. Her and her husband broke up about 10 years ago and they weren't friends at all. But they had 2 boys together so they had to be civil. Now after all those years he has gotten cancer and has only about a year left to live and so my sister had him move into her basement suite so she and their boys can take care of him. The boys are now 14 and 15 and this is what they wanted and so my sister agreed to it. But the boys have to do most of the caring for him. So it all depends on the situation as to whether ex's can be friends or not. Alrighty then, talk to you later, Your friend, Chris.

I always managed to stay friends with an ex, and no one i am around now seems to understand how i can do it. I always explain it this way.. If i have ever cared for a person, how can i just stop? I even remained friends with an ex that not only cheated on me but cheated on me with my best friend at the time. Maybe i am just weird but to this day i dont get how someone can just stop caring about someone after a break up? To me it makes me wonder if there were any real feelings there to begin with.

Yes, ex-lovers can be friends...i've been friends with my ex after 6 years of being together...you just have to set aside all the things that happened in the past and accept that you're not meant to be together forever but you can be the best of friends for the rest of your life.

i strong believe that ex's can still be friends, after all you'll were lovers. I communicate with all of my ex's except one but my decision not to communicate with is not because i have anything against but for the sake of my wife i decided it was the best thing to do for my relationship

i think it totally depends on how serious the relationship was, and how difficult the breakup was. I've had ex's that I've remained very close friends with for some time after the breakup. Over time they usually didn't stay close because new relationships are jealous, etc.

for me i think it depends on the reason why you broke up... because if the reason is because both of your feelings have faded already you can be friends.. but if there is a third party involve to his part.. i dont think you can still be friends.. or on your part and it is difficult for him to accept? you should let him find the one for him instead of hurting him again and again, telling him that you are still friends and he is aware that you are no longer his someone.. if that is the case i think you better move on..

exs cant be friends i think, there are somethings made a group apart,somethings stop the friendship develop again.

I feel one cannot stay friends with theirs exs Usually,when ppl are in a relationship , they do things that most friends wouldn't do with each other when they have a break up the memories remain and thus it makes it hard to be friends with someone who you have been close too also many times the break up isn't amicable and this creates a certain type of hard feelings that are difficult to overcome. alTHOUGH VERY RARELY ,ex's can still be friends but no one should count on it.

Exes can be friends yeah but I don't think I want to be that close anymore..In case I do become friends with any of them again. I wouldn't want to be that close a friend a distant friend maybe would be much better.I am married now and I don't think my husband would want that as well. You are right though that it depends on the breakup on how it went would one want to be friends with their ex.

I have a friend that I dated for awhile and we just decided that we should remain friends instead of a couple. I adore him and I know that I could go to him about anything and he would help me the best that he could. He has actually lived with my husband and I a couple of times and some thought that it was odd, but I just seen it as a friend being there.

I really think that it would be cery hard to remain friends after a break up. I know people do this, but we don't know their entire situation. So anyway, I think it would be very uneasy. You would see your ex in many situations as a friend that you would possibly want to avoid. For instance, if they began a new relationship.

Especially if they have children, exes should remain friends, or at least remain neutral. Remaining in the same house together, though, is unwise. Even being close friends is probably unwise. If there are still strong feelings on the part of both, they should remarry and work out their problems.

Absolutely they can stay friends. One of my first serious relationships, ended up with him dumping me cuz he found someone else that he thought was better...boy did he find out he was wrong. Anyway, i was with him for almsot 4 yrs, and well came very close and bonded with his whole family. When we split, i was crushed, but i eventually got over it. His mom decided to keep in touch with me, i was fine with taht, and little by little i started coming around to her house, which at times he was staying at (the guy was a loser when it came to holding a job..lol) well that was in March of 1995 that we split..in June i met my now hubby, and that christmas, my ex's mom asked us to come over christmas day since we had no plans (we spent thanksgiving with his parents in minnesota and did our christmas with them then, just like we sitll do) and my family met together on christmas eve. Well i said to my exs mom, you want me to come to your house for holiday and him and his girl are gonna be there..yeah right. She said, you will always be like a daughter to me and i want you there, they dont like it they can leave. I swear she really said that..so i talked to my bf (now hubby) and he said well if you are ok with it then ok. So we went there, and would you believe we all got along tjust great. I dindt care for his gf, but i was civil and dealt with her cuz i had to. My ex, in front of his gf, came up and shook my guys hand and said, dont ever hurt her, she is a great girl, and deserves the best. My ex earned alot of respect cuz of that from my guy. 13 yrs later, we still go over and spend different holidays with him and his family, through all of the girlfriends he has had in the last 13 yrs..lol. We are still great friends, and at one point when i was pregnant with my son, he even stayed with me and Hubby for a month, while in between places. Totally my husbands idea..lol. I know it sounds like a Jerry Springer show, but its true. There is nothing but trust between the 3 of us, so there is no reason to not be friends. I am also friend with a cpl of other ex's we just dont talk or see each other as often as this one. My ex still loves me and i still love him, his girls have known that and my hubby knows that..we were each others first realll love and that wont ever change, but we all know it just wasnt meant to be for us..everyone deals with it ok except a few of his ex gf's but well it didnt change anything..lol