An Ex Boyfriend Relationship - The Good and the Bad

So you broke up... but you still think you're compatible. Can you and your ex boyfriend still carry on some kind of relationship?

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The ex boyfriend friendship: can it really work?

Think about that for a minute. Can you really be friends with an ex? Or is the friendship doomed from the very beginning... because one of you still likes the other?

Sometimes you feel in your heart that something might not be a good idea, yet you still try to do it anyway. In the case of staying friends with your boyfriend after breaking up, your heart might feel confident that you can make such an arrangement work.

At the same time, your head might be telling you that you're eventually going to get hurt. These conflicting thoughts determine whether or not you should carry on a post-breakup friendship, and as usual in cases involving romance, the heart wins out.

The Myths and Truths About Staying Friends After Breaking Up

Being friends with your ex after breaking up might immediately seems like a good idea. If you're hurting at the thought of not being able to see or hear from your ex again, this may be one way to ease the pain. By maintaining an ex boyfriend relationship, you get to still talk to him. You get to email him, text-message him, and even see him from time to time.

Some girls even believe they can carry the more physical aspects of their relationship into the friendship as well (i.e. "friends with benefits"). Sleeping with your ex boyfriend is the last piece of the puzzle... he now has everything he had before while he was still dating you, minus the responsibility of being faithful and monogomous.

Friends With Your Ex Boyfriend: Taking the Good with the Bad

The good part of carrying on a relationship with your exboyfriend is that you delay the pain of the break up. Stretching it out over a long period of time you might even think you're avoiding it. But the bad part? All of the above thoughts are way too optimistic. Because in 99% of all cases, being friends with an ex boyfriend is only going to end in disaster.

First, since you're not single, you're free to date other people. If you still love your ex, you might be thinking "no problem... I'm swearing off men for a while anyway". But you know what your exboyfriend is thinking? "Who am I going to date first?" He's newly single, and will start seeing other people pretty quickly. Since you're now his friend, you can't say a thing about it. In fact, you have to wish him well. You're his buddy now, and you should be wanting all happy things for him, right?

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Just how far does your friendship go?
Are you sleeping with your ex to get him back?

Of course, your ex's new girlfriends might not be happy with your little friendship. You'll get anything from snarling, dirty looks to them forbidding your ex to see you anymore. To say this will put a strain on your ex boyfriend relationship is only putting it mildly. You'll feel anger and bitterness and resentment toward him as he doesn't stand up for you, taking his new girlfriend's side. And things are going to get very, very lonely once he starts spending almost all of his time taking his new girl out to places the two of you used to go together.

If this all sounds harsh, it's because it is. Save yourself the pain of trying to be friends with your ex. If you want your boyfriend back? Get him! Don't play around in some pretend role, thinking you can keep things platonic until he miraculously comes to his senses. How long do you think it will take? When will your ex want you back? If you're his friend, you're already giving him virtually everything he had while he was dating you: love, laughter, companionship, maybe even sex. What's his incentive to say "Hey, let's be boyfriend and girlfriend again!" The answer: there is no incentive. He'll happily continue with the way things are, while you get pushed further and further back into a friendship role that you really don't want.

Why Does My Ex Boyfriend Even Want To Be Friends With Me?

Okay, here's at least one piece of good news: If your ex boyfriend still wants a relationship with you? It means he's not totally over you yet. Just as you may be hanging onto the idea of dating him again, he's still hanging onto the idea of keeping you around - for the exact same reason.

Maybe he's not ready to get back into a full-blown relationship with you right away, but he does want to keep you at arm's length. Knowing where you are and what you're doing makes him feel safe and secure... which is why you need to rattle his world by refusing the role of his friend. Sound crazy? It's not. It's just one of the bigger steps you can take that will help win back your boyfriend.

There are 8 Individual Steps that will Get Back Your Ex Boyfriend, so find out what they are! The quicker you realize that a friendship type of relationship just won't work, the faster you can get started on the road to reconciliation.

MOMU - Magic of Making Up

The Magic of Making Up is a revolutionary guide to reversing an unwanted breakup. It's especially geared toward anyone who feels lost, hopeless, or as if an ex boyfriend or girlfriend is slipping further away with each passing minute.

The wealth of information and video instruction within Magic is as invaluable asset when it comes to getting an ex to go back out with you. Relationship expert T.W. Jackson reveals exactly what you need to do in order to win back your ex, with step by step examples you can start using RIGHT AWAY.

Find out what's going on in your ex's head, including why they might currently shy away from contact. Learn reconnection techniques designed to get your ex to see you the way they used to, back when your relationship was fresh, new, and exciting.

In just minutes you can be reading this instantly downloadable guidebook, watching the videos, and finding out exactly what stage of the breakup you're at. From there, "T-Dub" takes you by the hand and leads you every step of the way through the process of getting your ex to want you, need you, and actually CHASE you the way they did in the very beginning.

  • Understand why your relationship ended, and how it's the key to reversing ANY breakup.
  • Find out how you can reverse your ex's current opinion of you, and gain back their respect.
  • Learn how to UNDO all the mistakes you made, even if it seems like you've already blown it.
  • Gain knowledge of which psychological triggers remind your ex of how good you can be together.
  • Re-ignite the spark and passion of your original romance, for both you and an unresponsive ex.

These are just some of the lessons you'll learn within The Magic of Making Up. Chapter by chapter, you'll be shown exactly what needs to be done in to get back with an ex after breaking up.

If nothing else, be sure to check out Jackson's infamous Opening Moves Video. If you're currently stuck on what to do next after your boyfriend or girlfriend isn't responding, this video gives FREE tips on how to move forward toward reconciliation... instead of backward toward a permanent breakup.

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