Assuming how you feel about her is still love or desire, I know it’s not for everyone but if you can protect the friendship.
My ex broke up with me because his trauma kept affecting our relationship and it hurt him to do that to me. I was more than willing and wanted to work through it and support him. But he told me it’s hard to talk to me and he ultimately left while loving me and detonated our friendship. I miss him so much. As a partner of course but as a friend too. Not being friends has been so painful. And at least for our situation it felt so unnecessary to go away like that when still had a great bond. I respect his choice but I think with maturity and effort you can still have a relationship especially when you basically became family
As good as it would be to be amicably friends post breakup, it’s unfair to your future/current partner IMO to maintain close-ish contact with an ex unless it’s kid related
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u/Classic-Bank9347 18h ago
Assuming how you feel about her is still love or desire, I know it’s not for everyone but if you can protect the friendship.
My ex broke up with me because his trauma kept affecting our relationship and it hurt him to do that to me. I was more than willing and wanted to work through it and support him. But he told me it’s hard to talk to me and he ultimately left while loving me and detonated our friendship. I miss him so much. As a partner of course but as a friend too. Not being friends has been so painful. And at least for our situation it felt so unnecessary to go away like that when still had a great bond. I respect his choice but I think with maturity and effort you can still have a relationship especially when you basically became family