Writer's Block: Let's stay friends

[xiphias]

The matron of honor at our wedding was an ex of mine. Actually, we had an entire table that was mostly filled with my exes. The vast majority of them are on my LJ friends list.

I've lost touch with, like, one or two of my exes. I'm not sure what they're doing nowadays; I haven't seen them in a bunch of years. Other than that, I'm still friends with all my exes, and I consider many of them to be among my bestest friends ever. I'm not really able to be attracted to someone I don't like and respect, and just because I stopped dating someone doesn't make me like or respect her any less.

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[snippy]

My exes are exes for good reasons. I no longer have any negative feelings toward any of them for what happened during our relationships, but we're not friends any longer--what broke our relationships also broke the friendships. There was only one with no friendship in the first place, and unsurprisingly it broke with the least pain.

I'm completely out of touch with the first man I fell in love with; I'm not even sure he's still alive, which grieves me as I would prefer for him to be part of my life and me part of his. I have at least some contact with most of the others--more contact than I want with my ex-husband but we have children together and so will always be part of each other's families.

[gingicat]

This; sometimes one has a relationship falling-out that cannot be repaired, whether with a friend, partner, or workplace. About half of the folks I've dated or been more deeply involved with fall into that category. Others are now acquaintances I like but we are not particularly close.

Ian: as it happens, the ex I've remained particularly good friends (perhaps better than before) with is one of yours as well. :)