Are You Still Friends With Your Ex?

I'm civil with all of my exes and would say hello if we saw each other in public, but I'm not friends with any of them.

I am not. We ended on pretty bad terms. I realized towards the end of the relationship that I didn't even really like the person he was. I was just with him for the sake of not being lonely. Terrible, I know, but I was in a really bad place at the time.

My high school boyfriend of 5 years are going to be at my wedding reception LOL. We broke up 10 years ago. We are all friends. My husband is really good friends with him. but he is the only one I'm friends with. My ex before my husband is a terrible person.

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Ditto! With the exception of one, I can be cordial with all of my exes but I wouldn't call us friends.

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Oh yeah, I definitely wouldn't be friends with him either.

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I think that is fine because your future husband is okay with it.

No. I used to try to be but eventually there was too much drama. Sometimes you can leave people from your past in your past.

I am not. The only one I talk to is my daughter's father and that is only because I have to.

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I was friends with one of my exes until he started focusing the conversation on how things used to be and us getting back together.

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Although you don't have to be friends to co-parent I do think it makes things easier and less stressful on the children.

Yep. He’s a childhood friend of my FH (I met them completely independently of each other). My FH is better friends with him than I am. It was a little weird at first when they reconnected but we’re all adults and now him and his gf will actually be at our wedding.

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It's a small word. In this case, I would say this situation fits under the category of "the exes are mature enough to move forward with a friendship even though your relationship didn't work out." Would you agree?

We're friendly acquaintances. We are both heavily involved in two different organizations in college so we see each other around a lot so we chat sometimes but we're not friends who hang out or anything like that. And my fiance is also involved in the same things so he knows my ex too

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In that case, you two definitely have to be acquaintances. It's good that your husband is okay with it.

View Quoted Comment We are friendly towards one another when we need to be around each other but I don't consider us friends and we don't have any contact other than the things that concern our daughter.

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I completely understand.

I am, but just with 1. He also happens to coach the women's hockey team I play on so I see him quite often, especially in the winter. I think for us, there was attraction but never really love so more scenario 2. The point at which we dated was also rough as we were both going through some major job/career changes and that was our focus. FH knows all of this and is completely understanding, even when we have team parties in the summer at a teammates lake house and *gasp* we're in swim suits! lol There is a level of respect we have for each other that would prevent a line from ever being crossed, even when booze are involved.

I don't see my ex-husband all that often. But I'm quite sure that if I called him with an emergency, he'd be there is a heartbeat. And he attended my second wedding.

We have two children in common. We had to find a way to deal with each other, even after the relationship was over.

I'm friends with most of my exes, except for the most recent one. In fact one of them is no friends with my FH and will be coming to our wedding.

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Do you and your ex hang out outside of hockey?