Red Mercury said:Question then on this 'You Can't Stay Friends' theory. How true does this run? My ex-girlfriend and I broke up under very misunderstood circumstances. In the aftermath we've tried to stay friends in an ambigious effort to work things out at some undertermined point in the future. It sucks in about one hundred different ways, because of course I am holding out hope that everything works out, but it seems similar in alot of ways to other 'soft' break up methods. Am I falling for a variation on the 'staying friends' idea?
Don't initiate contact with her at all (yes that means never) . Move on.
Ignore this advice if she is already getting you dates with her other friends or doing something that is bettering your life.
My worst pain is probably the fact that it took about 2 months to get over the first serious relationship I had.