Breakup Poll What manner of breakups have you experienced? Have you broken up in a fit of anger? Gotten back together afterwards? Have you rationally discussed it and parted on "good terms"? Did those good terms last? Me: I've never broken up with someone in a fit of anger. Honestly, conflict scares me. I've never remained friends with an ex, even though I tried once.

no worries MIgrl... probably a troll or something like it. :)

depends on the person I had a lengthy tortured friendship with a closeted female ex that involved several angry breakups and "time-outs". I think the drama was related to her issues about her orientation, my issues about people making demands on me and the fact that it was a serious relationship ( actually too serious). I have a good friendship with a male ex but we were always mostly buddies being nice to each other. He's extremely slutty ( I am not) and sleeps with all his friends including the straight guys so the whole thing was a complete non issue for him. Because he is a more flamboyant, extreme person than me it's impossible to offend him and that's a big part of the friendship.

Oh Gosh My first real break up ended with me finding out she was cheating on me. I found this out while she was over at the girls house she was actually at. So I ed and broke up with her. I was pretty angry. No we did not get back together, but she tried. Once I got broken up with by text message while I was at work. That was nice. I have never remained friends with an ex, I never felt the want to.

never in anger it just didn't seem worth the effort. Never remained friend, didn't seem worth the effort.

one in anger, one ended as friends my ex and i ended in anger, cause of what a jerk i was, but, i've learned my lesson and we are learning to be friends...over the phone, not in person. she's already with some other woman, ect. soooo, thare ya go. my other ex, and i ended up as friends, and we are cool, i'm grateful for that. she wanted to move back to her home town and i didn't want to move, so, that was that. I always have an extra room for her and her and if i ever want to visit them, I have a vacation spot there too.

I just walk away,~poof~ I told my ex husband I was going out for a drink, never went back! Only been dumped once, it was never spoken, she,sadly, has mental illness issues. Still friendly with the newly ex-husband, (financial issues, longmarriage)but no others, male or female.

Mine... I've never broken up in a fit of anger but I did once get in a screaming match with an ex when I went to pick up some of my stuff at her house...We slept together a few times afterwards out of loneliness, but never tried to get back together. We did become friends after a couple of years of no contact. She's the one I'd like my wife to meet, but she passed away a few years ago, so no chance of that. I have parted after rational discussion, but never wanted to pursue friendship afterwards...It seems to me that ex'es are that for a reason and it's best to just move on. Of course, I've never had children or property involved, so it's been easier to move on.

fun fun /sarcasm. I have had breakups from amicable to hostile. When I was young I have done the anger breakup get back together thing, but really you only need to do that once to learn from it. I have friends, one in particular that was an ex of 6 years that I consider family. I love her, shes great and we'd do anything for each other (short of another relationship, heh). I wish I could be friendly with my most recent ex, but it is all too messy. I hope one day things calm. I also have exes I have walked away from and never spoken to again.

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Breakups Cheated on, went off meds, on again off again hooking up break up that lasts three years, bitch, bitch, psycho, broke up with me on aim three days before christmas and then had friends internet stalk me. Bout sums them up. Only had two good terms exes. One ended up being my best friend for many years, but our friendship ended last year and it's sad. The other is a really good person and we get together every now and again, but we aren't very close.

Eeeek.... Never broken up with anyone in a fit of anger. Once or twice I've gotten back together with someone after a breakup, but it never lasted that long. Never did it more than once per person. I've usually, at least past my xs, ended things on good terms, although it's almost always heartbreaking and painful when it doesn't work out. Usually amicable and/or mutual. Am on good terms with most of my exes, although over the years have lost touch with many. A few of my very closest friends here are techinally exes, although I don't think of them that way.

answers Of the breakups I've been through, one was incredibly acrimonious (it involved getting back together. Once.), and one was amicable. And one was somewhere in between; not pleasant, but had to be done. I've never done the actual breaking up in a fit of anger, though there was definitely anger involved in the acrimonious one. She's since mpted to contact me a few times, which I've ignored or blocked. The amicable breakup would be my most recent one over three years ago. Very, very painful, but we both consider it done on good terms. I'm a little reluctant to say we "remain friends", because it is, and isn't true. It is, insomuch as we email each other maybe once every four months or so with updates about our lives, as one would expect a friend to do. But, we are not in each other's day to day lives at all. The possibility of friendship I think will always remain, but at this point it's kind of moot because of being on different continents. But none of that negates us wanting to know if something were to happen to the other, or if one was in serious trouble where the other could help. This is the one ex I'd want to remain friends with, though I also think life will do what it does so there's no point fretting about it; we're both leading very different lives nowadays.

not ready to talk about LTD yet, eh? that's okay, we understand. When you're ready to talk, we'll be here for you. ((CB))