How many of you have gone to be friends with someone you've had a relationship with when it ends?

i have not...

It can be a hard thing to do , emotions being what they are. I like to remain freinds but sometimes it is not possible.

Only if it ends when it should, and isn't dragged out too long.

I have...and hope to continue doing so...

i am friends with all but one of my exes. the one i'm not is for very good reasons. i would say two of them were pretty serious and lots of emotion went into the relationship. one of them was the person i now don't talk to. there were a few others that couldn't been something serious had they continued. but i'm a friendly person before, during, and after a relationship. i don't like being mad or anyone being mad at me.

that is a very good point. most of my break ups were mutual or shortly after we came to realize it was for the best even if we hated it.

I am friends with some of my exs, and i like it that way.

Just because romantic love has dimished, doesnt mean u stop caring....if u do, was it really love in the first place?

NOPE!! great view on it.

I'm friends with both my ex husband & ex boyfriend and people look at me like I have 3 heads when I say I went to dinner w/ my ex husband! It took work to establish new dynamics between us, I won't say it didn't but I think its in itself a great reward if you can get there.

The getting there usually takes time. In the absence of abuse, I can usually get there, if it's mutual. However, there are occasions where I think it's best to just wish each other well (or not) and go your separate ways.

I'm still friends with one of my exgirlfriends. It took a lot of work from both of us but it has been well worth it. I wish some of my other relationships had turned out the same.

I will say that I have in fact ended most of my relationships on a level that we can in fact cross each others paths and be civil to one another. A few of those happened only within time and a lot of soul searching.

I do in fact once in a while still have contact either by e-mail or phone with a few of them nothing on a regular bases.

There are a couple that I have met and had lunch with them in the past when they were going to be in the area. But it remained on a friends level only the conversation was more or less checking to see how each other was doing and what was going on in our lives.

But now I'm friendly with those in the past and if I happen to run into them the conversation would be nothing but friendly.

But as far as making them close friends ones that I hang out with regularly on a daily bases then no I do not have any one from the past that is considered that close of a friend.

Now there is one that I dated for many years it ended bad but within time those issues where dealt with. And to this day if there is anything that I need all I have to do is call him and he would without a doubt help me with what ever the situation was. In fact he is the one that I normally call if my vehicle happens to break down and leave me stranded on the side of the road. And in fact if he called me and it was something I could help with I would without thinking twice.

cant do it...there is a fine line between love and hate

It depends of the why the relation ended, if it was a trust or cheating issue I couldn't be but if it was for other reasons then why not, I would always want to be friends with my ex if she wants to.

That's a good point. My ex's are good people or I would not have loved them to begin with. If you can chip the romantic piece of the relationship away you can get to the core of the friendship which should have been the foundation of that to begin with. If you don't start out friends you sure won't end up that way.

I am friends with a few of my ex's.

when a relationship ends i let her go...life moves forward and a person must move with it...you can't hang onto something from the past or you will never grow as a person be seeing you

MOST,,,,yes,,,,SOME,,,it impossible,wink,lol

Going with that theory --then you should let your parents go too??? and your kids? and your childhood friends?