Staying Friends with Your Ex – Pros and Cons
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Staying friends with your ex is one of those topics that always leads to a debate, because everyone sees it differently. We were reminded of this eternal topic by this article about contacting your exes. In this case, staying friends with your exes, or even contacting them, was obviously a bad idea.
So we decided to sum up all the most common pros and cons of staying friends with your ex. Whether you are swayed by the pros or the cons is up to you.
Staying friends with your ex - PROs:
- In addition to the sexual and emotional aspect, a relationship is usually based on many shared interests or passions. Just because the aforementioned aspects are no longer relevant to your relationship after breaking up, doesn’t mean you don’t still have a lot in common.
- Friendships, just like relationships, are valuable. If you have built a friendship AND a relationship, you shouldn’t just give the former up.
- As soon as emotions are out of the picture, your ex can become a valuable relationship consultant. Looking back, you can learn from your mistakes.
