Does staying friends after a breakup make it less painful?
Or does it make it worse? Does it make it easier or harder to get over them in the long run vs. the short term?
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More often than not it makes it worse and a lot harder……..particularly for the person who got "dumped" (I hate that word!). It will keep that person emotionally connected, possibly give them false hope of reconciliation and make it harder to move on. If there was sexual activity between you when you were together, that will complicate things even more. It seems most people who break up and remain friends are the ones who didn’t fool around sexually. Sex changes all the rules. You’re better to make the break and leave it like that.
Well we try to pretend it makes it easier, I’ve tried the friends thing before and it varies from girl to girl. A couple like being my friend, and others still hate me =/
If you still love your bf/gf then staying friends with them will be alot harder. Watching him/her get other dates will kill you inside.
It makes it lot worse, because there is always an akward tension between eachother.
harder. because you know you can’t kiss the person you used to kiss and you can’t do the stuff you used to do. it just makes you sadder.