That's television not reality. I use to become really good friends with the people my friends would date but after they broke up, I always sided with my original friend.
That's television examples I was using to illustrate what is my reality.
What's being friendly with people you're actual friends start dating got to do with what I'm talking about?
I'm talking about a group of people that are already friends. One of that group starts dating another. They break up. They kind of HAVE to get back to a level of friendship because everyone in that group is friends with both of them.
I used friends and HIMYM as an example because something like Ross and Rachel's break up is a perfect illustration of what I was talking about.
You wanna hang out in the same coffee house, spend time with the same friends etc, you gotta figure out a way to be around each other.
And eventually, because you are all so close, you'll end up calliing each other friends again.
Like I previously said, I wouldn't go out of my way to be mean to her, but I wouldn't be at her beck and call friend.
I know Nave swears up and down, that he could be friends again, but playing the odds, and my own experiences, plus other posters who have recited similar stories, it usually ends the same way.
For some people, maybe you're right. I guess all I'm doing is offering the perspective of someone who HAS been able to keep friendships going after relationshipy messes.
Because it's totally possible, and I am so glad I did, because I have so many people in my life I care about and who care about me.
Also, I'm not a fan of settling. Nave wanted more, she didn't. Why should he have to settle for something less than what he wanted.
That's ridiculous to me. It's like going to the supermarket because you have a craving for a chocolate bar and not getting any because they didn't have the specific one you had in mind...
If you can't get that one, you settle for option number 2, which is still enjoyable even if it's not what you were craving.
So you'd be cool if your boyfriend was still really good friends with his ex? They could hang out? Drink together? Maybe one night she had too much, it's cool if she stays at his place right?
As much trust you have for a significant other, there also has to be respect.
Totally depends on the situation.
I mean, I've been out with a guy who had no respect for me, and it was horrible.
He had a picture of his ex on the wall and refused to take it down. When she came to visit, she slept 'on the floor' in his room and I slept on the couch... Yeah, I'm not proud of what I put up with when it comes to my ex.
He also used to spend a lot of time with a female friend who was openly 'in love with him', and he'd constantly blow me off so he could be with her.
Of course ironically, he never cheated on me with a woman, but with men in the end.
But those are extremes.
If a guy has a friend he's known since his teens, and she and he still hang out together sometimes, and they did have a sort of a thing once but it was never serious, and you can see from the way they act around each other that they are just good friends... Then no, them spending time together, drinking together and even passing out in his room would be okay with me. Especially if the guy showed some concern for how I'd feel about it.
Now I'd be hypocrite if I said exes can't be friends. I met up with an ex, a while back when I was dating someone else. Nothing went on, but it was pretty much a one time deal. They were in town for a few days. We had lunch and I took them sight seeing.
But, to hang out with them every week and then giving a significant other, attitude because they are uncomfortable with all the time I'm spending with them? Well, that just shows how little I think of their feelings and how unwilling I am to compromise.
But why does it have to be alone? I mean, if I found a guy I'd work pretty hard at spending time with his friends too, so that we could all spend time with each other.
But... but... but he'd be Welsh...
I don't think I can look at you the same anymore...

It's okay, he wasn't welsh, he was from Somerset just like me!