"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - NEVER".

I think that most lovers who breaks up rarely become friends again. But there are few couples who do stay friends after their relationship as a couple has ended. I think that it depends upon the cause of the break-up. If the end is sour like someone caught someone having an affair with another person, or someone lied alot, or someone was truly hurt, then it's hard or sometimes impossible to be friends again. But if their break-up is because of losing the feeling, and falling for someone else, or incompatibility but the person concern was honest enough and respects the other enough to tell them and break up formally, the chances are better.

the quote above stands correct for the majority of people.Am friends with my ex which brings out surprise from my friends because when a relationship breaks then there is no point in hanging on with such kinda friend.Thats the usual feeling.But i am kind of forgetful person who forgets what had happened .So suites me.while the rest may have some big time maintaining such a kind o f relationship.

You are right to some extents. I have seen many people after they break up, promise to be friends.But I think its not always long term as whatever u promise the old memories haunts you.But i have also seen the friendship between a boy and girl ends in love most of the times.My friend proposed me but i declined as I don't had that type of feelings for him. Still we are friends.

It does happen sometime that two people can fall in love and get married. If things don't work out, some do stay as friends and get along better that way. My ex and I could never be friends, but my present husband, yes. No matter what would happen, we would always remain friends. I'm sure of it. I think it depends on the relationship.

only in 1 case in mylife has that happened and that was with my first love/boyfriend we are still freinds to this day adn always will be but we are now long dist, hes remarried kids and i am also.. as far as the ex, htere's no hope for me and him ever being friends infact id rather be freinds with his wife the women he cheated on me with while i was pregnant... id have better luck lol he can be an a-- all the time unless he wants somethings the only reason he is in my life right now is because we have a child together.. thanks for the post, \suzzs good luck on hte new relationship....

i am agreed to the saying that love cant ends in frinedship. it happened to me too. i became romantic in friendship, started expecting a lot and became demanding. i think it was my onesided love. anyways, love never ends, but expression of love ended, and we are no more friends now. i got love in friendship, but i lost my friend bcz of love. and now no love, no friendship, am lonely..... so above said saying is very true.

True, but the last statement is incorrect. My ex-girlfriend and I ended in friendship. We didn't fight when we broke. Now, I have new Girl and She has her boy too. We live our lives and we enjoy that. We are good friends. Sometimes our lovers jealous to us.

I think i have examples of love ends with friendship! And not only exceptional but so many! I have two divorced couples who had married when in love then they felt after years to live separately and decided that matter with maturity and friendly! So after break in legal term also they met enjoy their friendship without any hurt feeling!

i remember he was my second bf and our relationship ended not in good terms. actually i felt bad about the break-up coz i still had the feelings for him, but as time goes i was kinda thankful for the break-up coz i realized that he is not worthy of. now that i found a new love and in better person i am much happy. there was one day that we bump at each other with my ex. that i realized the he is totally gone in my heart and honestly we become friends, although its not that close friend. i totally forgive him for what had happen and i even wish him luck for his life. sometimes i give him advice and the same as he is. i guess what matter is i had forgiven someone and finally move on and wanted to have a better life in the future.

my ex and i started with friends at first.but later on we started liking each other a lot and finally fell in love with each other.our relationship lasted for 1 year.because after a few months he went to australia to study.so that time our relationship changed to long distance relatoionship.after broke up we agree to remain as friends.at first it was quite ok just to be friends.but then the distance between us getting further.we no longer send sms to each other.and we no longer chat online in msn even if both of us were online.i still wanted to remain as friends with him but he said all kind of bad things to me.so i made up my mind not contact him anymore.that was my second ex.while the first ex we are very close friends until now.it is because we were in same school and same class for 5 years.he would come to my house sometimes and i would teach him in studies.but i am not gonna go back to him.because until now i am not be able to forget my second ex.and i am not sure whether i would be able to forget him in this life

thats true, its easier to build a romantic relationship or an affair and commitment out of friendship, than from deeper relationships to friendship. but there are some who succeeded in having a good form of friendship out of relationship. sadly it never worked out for me as well, the previous relations i had did not went out as i have plan, even if we said and promise that we will stay good friends.

this is exactly what has happened to me before... i have a friend and i fell in love with her but after broke up with her i could never see her as my friend anymore... eventhough she said that she's my friend all the time, it never really end up like that...

Well I'll be honest with you, love and friendship can work together, at least it has for me. I was friends with my husband before we fell in love, we are still the best of friends and still much in love with one another. As for past experiences, well I can honestly say that I have never remained friends with any of my ex's. So the quote fits for those in that type of relationship. It depends however on the person also.

My husband and I were good friends before we get married. We really get along well but of course in every relationship they are ups and down even if you get started as friends. When he is just my boyfriend there come a time that we broke up, but still talk and get along. So i should say that even if you broke up with your friend that become your boyfriend, you will still get along well because you atarted being friends unlike the others that skip to being friends.

This happens most often than not. Its easy to build romantic relationship from friendship since the trust is already there and the time spent together will make it more easy to let it grows and turn to love. While relationship seldom end as friendship because the bitterness of breaking up sometimes is too hard to take and needs a lot of time to heal the broken heart. So basically friendship after breaking up might not be a good idea. Even after a long time passed by, still its hard to build friendship especially when the reason of breaking up was a betrayal of one of the couple.

You are right i have an experience of friendship ends in love theory but it was a very bad experience. I fall in love with my best friend and it was so sad that things didn't worked like it was supposed to be and we ended up still being friends but deeply hurt. So we need to be careful not getting involved into something seriously, specially when we give too much we expect the same and if we don't receive than its us who will suffer the pain.

I think that people in that situation just need to expect less from the friendship that is left when a person becomes an ex. The friendship that is left is probably not going to be like the one you have with everyday friends. It would be too awkward to hang out, chat on the phone, or go out to the movies but I bet the ex would turn up and be there if they were ever needed in a pinch. There are different forms and levels of friendship. Sometimes we have to just accept what we can get from a friendship. I have had the reverse happen to me. I was friends with my husband first and we have been a happily married now for almost 20 years.

I think that quote maybe slightly be true, I mean it is true that friendship usually ends with love but love in friendship it depends on how two parties end their relationship. For example if you end up your relationship smoothly and clear things up maybe there's a possibility that in the future you can be friends but if the other way around, that you haven't talk to clear things between the two of you then you can no longer be friends or it will take a long time before you'll be comfortable to talk with each other again.

wow.. charles caleb colton created that quote? haha.. almost same with my name.. such a good quote.. serious.. i do agree with the quote.. it's not never.. but seldom.. we all know that friendship often end up into a deeper relationship.. but why can't the deeper relationship get out and become shallow? if you get what i mean =)

That quote is confusing. Friendship tends to lead to something even bigger with most people. I think that the more you get to know someone and the more you spend time with them, you greater your attraction for them will be. This does not seem to be the case for me though. Whenever I'm friends with a girl, it never leads to something romantic.. I think girls don't take me seriously and think that I'm not the kind of guy that would make a good "boyfriend" or partner. So I guess the second part of the quote, "love in friendship never" applies to me here.