Breaks up with them

your the best friend, how long is she/he off limits, ??

For me??? In perpetuity.

Um. Forever.

Depends on if it was mutual. Give it a month if one left the other. Mutual then they're fair game. Be prepared to box your friend though just in case. If they are that wonderfull then don't let them slip away.

Forever

thats just low never screw a friend over

TRUE DAT

leave it b what it is a friendship

Unless you think this person could possibly be something really special I wouldn't even consider it.

probably forever

foeva.eva.

Forever off limits.

It depends on the friend and on their relationship.

I dated my best friend's ex, but the situation was weird:

1) He turned gay at the end of their relationship, which is why it ended. No hard feelings on his side.

2) I checked with him that it wouldn't be upsetting

3) It was several years ago, before I had even met her

4) I've known him for 3/4ths of my life and we've been best friends the whole time. He knows me.

5) They're friends, but not too close.

In any less comfortable a situation, though, I'd say its off limits for me.

You have to ask first. It is only off limits if the friend says so. The hardest one of these to answer is if your ex's sister is off limits...


It usually is.

--Craig

It should be forever

I'd say forever as well.

Almost everyone here says forever. That's some f-ed up sh!t right there. I mean if you were going to ask this perons out, there must of been some sort of attraction.

Look, I dated Alex's ex a while back. The truth is, both of us met her at the same time, both of us (at the time) said we were into her. He just beat me to the initial asking.

Now, he broke up with her, and got married. Some three years after their break up, and one year after his marriage, I asked her out. We went out a few times, it didn't stick (distance thing, we still talk).

Did Alex get pissed that I asked her out, nope, actually he said that he thought the two of us would probably go great together.

Look the thing is, you have to consider the friend, some of my friends would be pissed, others would encourage it. You also have to consider what happened between the two of them, and ask yourself, if this works out, will my friend and my new signifigant other still be able to be in the same place. I mean if it was a tooth and nail break up, how will you ever be able to be with you (wo)man and your best friend at the same time?

Look, I'm from a really small town, dating an ex is not something that has to be ruled out. If that was the case, I don't think I could ask out anyone local. Actuall I think I already have asked out everyone local, but that's another topic.

For most part is the unwritten rule. Forevaaaaaaah


Unless .. they really didn't like them, felt they didn't have anything in common, yada yada

AND you have a talk with them first.

forever....you'd be blowing your buddy by proxy too