Yo, So, I was thinking lately, if I found one to suit my standards, I would date a friend's ex. I'm not saying I am, or I have--right now, I would have no qualms over it. And apparently this is a big thing in friendships; I've heard of friendships falling apart because someone dated another friend's ex. So, what are your thoughts on that? Would you date another friend's ex?
This is just my opinion, I don't expect it to be agreed with necessarily - but I think there are very few occasions where one can truly be friends with one's ex. Sure, you can be really friendly and stop and have a nice conversation every time you see each other, but unless you only dated for a couple of weeks before deciding you weren't compatible, I doubt things would ever go back to being the way they were before. So I imagine that if I was in that situation, whether or not things had ended acrimoniously between me and my ex, I would not want to be around them all the time, and I would hope that my friend would respect that. And as I think I would feel that way, I would avoid putting my friends in that position in case they felt the same. This is all very hypothetical, I don't yet have enough gay friends to be in this position.
I voted a few hours ago, but didn't have a chance to respond, but now that I'm home: I said under certain circumstances. It would have to be ok with my friend. I have strong relationships with most of my friends, so I would prefer it be alright with them before I did something like that. I don't think that I would have an immediately strong connection with someone enough that I would put a relationship with them over my current friends.
Yeah. If I ever get anyone attracted to me, that I find attractive, I'm going for it. Sorry not sorry.
Yeah, I'll take what I can get. If I really like someone, not dating her because my friend once dated her seems silly.
I've actually dated a good friend's ex before. She just noticed while she was dating him that he was always talking about me, so she figured he'd be happier with me. I voted "under certain circumstances" because if it's OK (I mean, really OK and they're not just saying that) with your friend.
Depends on circumstances: how long ago they dated, how serious it was, etc. Most importantly, is the friend ok with it?
