Can Guys Be Friends With Their Ex Girlfriends

Why They Do It: 17 Men Talk About The Real Reasons They Stay In Touch With Their Exes

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ane. "Usually I don't keep up with them afterward just there was 1 and it 100% had to do with how attracted I was to her."

-Marlen, 27

2. "I stayed in touch with one ex of mine for years for the simple reason that I believe in keeping my options open so even though I was dating other people afterward I kept in touch with her because y'all never know. I practice generally proceed in touch unless it'due south some crazy ass breakup and I have hooked up with some exes more than a few times when I was single once more."

—Darren, 25

3. "I've kept in touch with two of them and my current gf who'south awesome has met i of them and knows we used to date. But it'southward not like what people might remember. I used to just always end up dating my friends and so I was always friends with girls first. When nosotros broke up we were able to go back to existence friends."

—Jeffrey, 25

4. "We take most of the same friends and so it's almost impossible not to see my ex if I want to go alongany of my friends since they aren't the type to choose sides. Really, looking back, I blame getting dorsum together with her which I stupidly did, on but being around her more than I should have, getting drinks, and and so remembering the good times."

—Jacob, 23

5. "This was in college but there was i girl that I'd dated that I kept up with and basically never stopped seeing fifty-fifty though I was in relationships with other girls. We simply had serious chemistry although I call back for her it was kind of a dominance matter. Like, she liked knowing that nosotros were getting together even though I was seeing other people. It was a niggling sick."

—Chris, 24

6. "I used to stay in contact with some girls, especially a item ane simply 1 twenty-four hour period I woke upwards and just felt similar I was completely living in the past and that on some level I was conveying a torch for them. I unfriended them and I don't recall they even noticed but it was a large thing for me."

—Greg, 26

vii. "I really do keep in contact with some exes just so that I'll have someone to hook up with when I'yard single. This isn't some big secret. Girls exercise the same thing."

—Karl, 22

viii. "I never really accept but my last gf did. To me, keeping an ex as a friendcan be a dead giveaway that they aren't over them. She and I didn't appointment long, thankfully."

—Robert, 22

9. "My high school girlfriend is the merely one of my exes that I've kept up with and we're actually shut friends. It's not romantic at all only she's somebody I tin can phone call when I've got something on my listen and she'due south good for giving me a adult female's point of view when I need it."

—Eric, 23

10. "It always sort of cracks me upwards when I hear any of my bros talking well-nigh staying friends with somebody they broke up with. I feel like that'due south the lamest way to break up with someone and so the friendship basically consists of never talking to them again except for trying to hook up with them when they're drunk. A lot of girls never seem to grab on to this."

—Neil, 21

11. "I beloved all my exes. I try to go on in touch with them and chat with them at to the lowest degree once a year. We only talk through Skype or FaceTime though because I'm pretty sure it would be inevitable if we saw each other in-person — we'd hook upwards,  which would exist bad because we're all still in happy relationships… Just what I wouldn't give to take an orgy with all the woman I've always dated."

—Peter, 24

12. "I believe in cutting your exes out of your life like, Kill Pecker style. No matter if yous ended things on practiced or bad terms, amicable, platonic relationships are simply not a affair when it comes to your exes. Imo, at least."

—Tim, 22

13. "I still talk to one of my exes. She understands me in a way that no on else does, and sometimes I just need to hear her voice, hear her opinion, shoot the shit together. I don't know how she feels though about my desultory calls from time to time to just 'conversation.'"

—Patrick, 24

fourteen. "I continue in touch with my college gf. I take a terrible habit of texting him to cheque in whenever my current gf and I get into an awful fight. I guess that's why I keep in touch with them—to reassure myself that there's e'er another option. It'south unreasonable and egotistical of me to assume that she'd still be interested, but whatever. We can't always be rational."

—Alex, 27

15. "I've never really had a bad ending where I would cease talking to someone entirely. And I generally would remember that just because of the type of person I am, if I cutting off all contact either it's considering yous're the earth's biggest asshole or I'chiliad probably still hurting. I like to think I haven't ever dated the earth'southward biggest asshole and equally for the hurting, I may distance myself for a while, but I also like to wish people the best. And it's cool to catch upwards with people you lot used to know at some indicate and encounter how far they've come. Yous have to accept that some people were in that location to teach you something and that's information technology. I still come across one or two once in a while because we run into each other at places I go to, or visit, from time to fourth dimension. I don't become out of my mode though. And I call up they'd say the say the same. But I attempt not to accept any bitterness. Things pass after a while. Of class there is that 1 or 2 you lot'll always wonder, 'What if?' But that's life. Que sera, sera ."

—Jamie, 28

16. "I'm probably the only person I know of that keeps in contact with their exes just to know they're okay."

—Mohammed, xxx

17. "I keep in touch with one ex, more often than not because we were so close in college and were friends even before nosotros started dating. I miss her sometimes, but don't really have any doubts near my decision not to exist with her, so it's easier to stay in touch on because of that."

—Jim, 25

18. "I used to do this but it never actually ended up in a skilful place. In my older wiser years I've learned to allow information technology go. Yeah, I know I'm 23 only still, I learned my lesson."

—Ben, 23

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Source: https://thoughtcatalog.com/daniel-hayes/2015/08/reasons-they-stay-in-touch-with-their-exes/

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