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A sampling of what moms in the Marriage and Relationships group said when asked if they would accept a friend invite from ex husbands, boyfriends, or sex friends on Facebook -- or if it was okay for their SO to:
-- It would depend on the situation, who the "friends" are today, and how long ago this took place.
-- Nope. There are two girls who my husband knows will piss me off if he's friends with them, because after we were married they still tried to break us up and they still tell him how much they love and miss him (crossing friendship boundaries).
-- I wouldn't do it, so I hope he wouldn't either. If it was someone from way back, and everyone has moved on, then I wouldn't care. I couldn't be friends with the last person I was with before my husband.
-- I am friends with a few men I had sex with in the past, college years. We are all married and I'm not interested in having sex with them. We keep everything pretty quiet, commenting on the children and wishing each other well.
Are you friends with people from past relationships? How does your spouse or boyfriend feel about it? How do you feel about his exes as friends?
Comments (17)
I'm friends with exes on facebook and in real life, as is my husband. I have no problem with it, nor does my husband. I feel lucky to call some of my exes friends, particularly if we were together a long time. It makes me feel that I didn't waste all that time, we were better off friends, and wish each other the best. Of course, this can't always be the case. But in my case, it's all good.
Ex's are an ex for a reason and unless there are children involved they have no place in the present or future.
My ex-husband is a Myspace "friend". I just never deleted him after we divorced and at this point (3 years later) ..it doesn't make a difference to me. I wouldn't add any other ex's to my Mypace or Facebook though. Neither would my partner. We don't like them LOL!
I did once but realised that it was a stupid idea. Why was I hanging on to keeping contact with guy X when I had my DH? How would I have felt if DH was doing the same? So I deleted him, and am very glad I did. I need to move foreward, leaving my baggage.
However if we had been very good friends regardless of any previous...incidents, as long as we no longer felt anything other then a strong connection through friendship then of course I would keep them as a 'friend' on my internet site.
And, I expect the same respect from my DH.
I personally woudn't. It's very ironic though. He wouldn't be my friend on myspace when we were married... Now he's trying to get me back! -too little too late buddy!
Not a good idea if he does not want to be platonic. I would reccommend not.No need to explain what it can lead to......
I have some ex relationship ppl on my yahoo messenger, facebook and yahoo. Hes fine with it. He doesn't have any ex ppl of any sort on his just because hes not still in touch with them or they don't have those sites.
I am friends with some of mine! I know the ones not to be friends with, the stalkers!
I'm friends with 2 of my ex's online and in real life and hubby is friends with them too. We are also real close friends with one of his ex's too. We all grew up together in a kinda small town so stuff like that happens sometimes. Hubby and I have been together for almost 10 years and we trust each other 100%
I still talk to a few of my ex's. They weren't anything serious and only lasted a few weeks. In those cases we were better friends first.