The EX

[AOX81]

How many of you are still friends with an ex-boyfriend/girlfriend? What kind of relationship do you have with them and if you have a new significant other does it bother them?

[PM_Mama00]

I have 2 exes. One, Jerry... we've been friends on and off for 4 years. When he gets a girlfriend, he stops talking to me. He had a girlfriend for 2 years, and after they broke up he just found me out of the blue. We started talking again, but he's so weird cuz one minute he's all good to me, the next minute he hates me. I should prolly add that he's a druggie and totally alcoholic. He's a liar, denies he has a problem, and then he'll tell me he wants help. Then he'll tell his best friend there was nothing between us, just to look cool. His bday is tomorrow and he is proly goin to jail. It's so funny that this thread was started cuz just now I decided I don't want anything to do wth him... so I told him to have fun in jail being someone's bitch. (he's tall and disgustingly skinny... hmm prolly from the cocaine).

My other ex... he still cheats on his girlfriend with me. She's 11 yrs older than him, so me and his family think that they're together for other reasons. We're still friends when we decide to be. I'm good friends with his sister so he's stuck knowing me anyway! But this IS the guy that I wana marry, and prolly will end up marrying.

[sigmagrrl]

I am EXTREMELY close to my ex. We still go out to dinner together, talk every night. We were friends for 6 years before we started dating. We broke up, we got scared to lose our friendship, and agreed to be friends. I actually think our dating relationship bonded us to each other for life. Sure, it's still hard to think of him dating another woman, but not because I still love him, but I know that I would never see him. And it does scare him for me to date others, but we face it when it happens...

[Kevlar281]

When I break up with someone I cut off all contact completely. I don’t feel that I should be some emotional stepping stone for someone I don’t date.

[h2oot]

My ex and I parted when we both went to different universities after HS. We are still good friends even though both of us are now into relationships with somebody else.

One of my exes is my best friend. We had a horrible dating relationship... but once we admitted to that and broke up, we became incredibly close friends It is hard for us to see the other dating somebody, but I think it's mostly because no one ever seems good enough for the other

[Peaches-n-Cream]

No contact, no friendship, no relationship, nothing.

[nucutiepie]

one of my exes is now one of my best friends.

My "first love" and I are going out to lunch together tomorrow - just to catch up, we haven't seen each other since Christmas.

[Hootie]

I am not really friends with many of my exes. The two guys I dated in highschool...I see one of them and I will always talk to him and catch up but we're not "Friends" in that sense. The other one dropped off the face of the planet, and that is fine by me.
The guy I dated when I started college is around but certainly not a friend. He still owes me $1000.00! So needless to say if I ever found him I'd be asking for a payment.
Will and I just ended our engagment (more or less HE did). It's hard cuz we were very close and had been friends for so long. I think right now it's just the "i need time to myself" time...but I think we may be able to rekindle the friendship in a few months...maybe in a year. I have a lot of anger at him right now, and he's too busy chatting in chat rooms anyways!

Hootie

[APhi]

I was friends with one of my exes for several years after we broke up. However, eventually I came to realize that that despite reaching his mid twenties he was still trapped in his stunted adolescence and patterns of self destructive behavior that made me dump him in the first place. It just hurt to much to watch him waste all the intelligence and talent as a writer that I knew he possessed while he waits tables for a living, gets drunk every night, and has actually managed to increase his drug use. After a while you just have to walk away.

[Tom Earp]

EXs, NO NO NO!

Hootie are you single and do you like older men!?

Are you in The Big O or in Wat ever land?

Come to kansas ToTo just click your Ruby Slippers!

[ChiOJenn78]

I don't talk to ex's at all-after all, they are ex's for a reason. I have no desire to spend any more time with any of them than I already have. Ick.

[AGDPrincess70]

heh...for me, it depends on the ex and the circumstances in which you broke up. I have two examples...

Ex #1 and I dated for about 8 months. We broke up and didn't talk to each other for about a month or so. That gave us the time we needed to sort thigns out and whatnot. Today, five years later, he's still one of my best friends. He's actually trying to hook me up with one of his fraternity brothers.

Ex #2 is a different story. We broke up on extremely sh*tty terms, and didn't have those couple weeks of not seeing each other, because we both had leads in back to back to back plays. We had to see each other, at great length, every day for the next 4 months. We would get into insane screaming and shoving matches...

I don't know if you guys know the show Godspell, but there's this part in the show where "Jesus" is talking about reading people's feet. My ex was the guy on the floor having his foot "read." In the middle of opening night, I was holding his foot during this part, and just started twisting his ankle as hard as I could! I actually messed up his knee by doing that. I don't know what POSESSED me to do it. It's actually really funny because after that we started shoving each other ONSTAGE DURING THE SHOW!!!!! The video of that night is absolutely hilarious because there's all this singing going on and you can see my ex and me in the background shoving each other! It's like something out of Monty Python.

We can laugh about it now, but it's taken a LOOOOOONG time to get to this point...