How to deal with your best friend dating your ex

How To Deal When Your Friends Are Friends With Your Ex

Sometimes, romantic relationships end with explosions. Sometimes, ties need to be severed completely. But sometimes, your ex-partner was once your best friend, someone whose influence on you is undeniable. How you feel about friendship with an ex can depend on the culture of the community you surround yourself with. But the queer community is smaller. You often work with your ex, run in the same circles, or share the same chosen family. According to a study published in Communication Quarterly , members of the queer community often retain higher levels of interpersonal contact with exes and are more satisfied with the friendship than members of the straight community. There are copious reasons to strive for friendship. Maybe you realized you are incompatible as partners but love discussing politics with each other.

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There are many situations we face in our lives which make us question the ingenuity of the universe. Some of them are harsh, some funny and some beautifully ironic. One of them is falling for our respective ex's close friend!

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Woe Is Me! We just broke up and I think her best friend is very similar to me, and quite the opposite of my ex. How do I not complicate this? But in the vast majority of cases, this would lead to a trail of broken hearts and friendships. Drop it and move on!

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5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Date a Friend’s Ex

You never think anything could breakup you and your best friend, but you could be wrong. Everyone has unspoken rules or guidelines around what is and is not okay to do in their friendship, otherwise known as bro or girl code. These guidelines might be as harmless as not giving unsolicited advice to more serious deal breakers like not abandoning your intoxicated friend at a party. While we can all agree the ex-files is not territory we should be steering into, sometimes life happens and we fall for people unexpectedly. Beyond mutual unhealthiness, was their relationship abusive?

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