We’re you ever able to stay friends with an ex?

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My boyfriend just dumped me the other day. We had talked marriage and everything. Even tried for a baby for a short while. 
Anyway, he and I both want to stay friends, but I’m really struggling with it. My heart is so shattered. He and I could never get back together. Realizing this, trying to move past the pain, but still talking to him is proving soooooooo very difficult. I don’t want to stop talking to him either though. 
Do you have any tips for me to make this friendship work and not be absolutely soul crushing?

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PUT yourself first. Your mental health is most important. Friendship should come later on down the line..... if thats ok and once u hve healed.

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Don’t be friends now. Maybe some time in the future, but if you are hurting it’s not right for you. Take your time to heal and move on. You can always come back and be friends if you decide you want to. Don’t try and force it.

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Once I'm done, I'm done 💔💔 block every contact and move on .

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Once you’ve had sex and moved past normal friend stuff, it honestly is never the same. I had to literally pray and ask God to help me get over my ex fiancé (this was over 10 years ago). And girl. It was the best ever to stop talking. I now am really happily married to the sweetest man I could have asked for. Hitting our 10 year anniversary this year, on baby #3, and I’m so thankful that I truly let that other guy go with Gods help♥️ it’s so hard. But it will get easier. I promise.

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I haven’t talked to my ex is years and it’s the best decision I’ve ever made. Don’t be friends. They’ll either play with your head/heart or they’ll take advantage of the situation. Or what’s worse, you’ll eventually see them with someone else and it’ll rip your heart in pieces. Be stronger now and get through it! Even if you don’t hate him or dislike him in any way. It’s much better to not be friends.
If you were truly in love and romantically loved each other, it’ll hurt too much to be friends with him. 
If you’re able to be friends, then you weren’t truly in love and you’ll be fine. 
Walk away from it cordially, with mutual respect. It’s just better that way. And you’ll feel better in the long run.

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I couldn’t be friends with an ex until down the road when we both healed from the break up. It took quite a few years for us to get to the friendship stage.

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You don’t have to be friends with him right away after the breakup. Put yourself first meaning it’s time for you to focus on yourself and heal yourself. Time will always heal the heartache. You will be ok without him, I promise you.

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Challenge with being friends is you might end up becoming lovers if you move past the pain and get close again. And that will only lead to breaking up again and another heart break. I would say nomatter how fun and good both of you are, jist agree to stay way with no hard feelings for each other's good.

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I'm friends with my ex-fiance. We were together for almost 4 years (engaged for just less than 1). We were together for 17-21. I'm now 25 and engaged again to the love of my life, my ex recently got a new girlfriend but he seems pretty happy.
It took a while to be friends again. For ages there was the lingering "could I just go back to him if things don't work out?" especially when I was single. I had been in a relationship my whole adult life and didn't really know how to be an adult on my own. We had to live together for a but after breaking up which lead to a lot of arguments but now we're a lot better. He comes round regularly and my daughter calls him Uncle. Both of us moved to this country together and don't have any family nearby so we're kinda each others family. We had been friends for years, and towards the end of our relationship it felt like we were back to being friends, so it wasn't too hard of a transition after I moved out and the arguments stopped.
I think the harder part is dating. People always ask me "Doesn't your partner mind?". I first met my partner while I was still living with my ex so it was kinda awkward, and we had to move in together super early into our relationship (9 months in) so that I could afford to not live with my ex anymore, but my partner always trusted me. There were definitely times when he was paranoid, but he tried to be level headed about it and never made any accusations. Now he's really good friends with my ex, moreso than I am as they have more in common. Now there's definitely no paranoia or jealousy at all. It's harder though for my ex, his last girlfriend was so jealous of me she was always sending me messages calling me names, commenting on pics of me on facebook calling me ugly, or just talking bad about me to my ex. Any time they would argue she would accuse him of cheating on her with me and would publically write that on my Facebook. She even accused me of cheating on my ex with my current partner (I met him 5 months after we broke up). In the end I stopped being friends with him because I'm an adult and don't really like the drama - especially publically where work colleagues and family could see. They broke up about a year ago and we went back to our usual scheduled friendship but I can definitely feel a little strain between us these past few months since he's been in a relationship. I haven't met his new girlfriend yet because of covid but I hope she's more mature :/ I guess only time will tell.

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I tried. It didn't work.

We’re you ever able to stay friends with an ex?

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