Staying Friends with your Ex

So you want to remain friends with your ex after the breakup? You’ve thought about it a lot and you feel that you are strong enough to see them without having a mini breakdown. After all, you were together for so long and you shared so many wonderful moments together, so why shouldn’t you be just friends?

Your friends are telling you not to do it, so what do you do?
You lie to them.
And you meet your ex.
And all of a sudden your feelings of love and hate and desperation and vulnerability all rise up and mix together and suddenly you realize that if those feelings were a cocktail, you’d be passed out and lying in some dark alleyway somewhere with homeless people going through your pockets.

And that would be better than meeting your ex again.
So let’s say it does work out—well good for you! So now you can live happily ever after.

But for some people it becomes complicated. A friendship with an ex partner might come with some prerequisites, or in plain English–with strings attached, and after getting rid of those strings after the breakup, should you really be adding more?

This is the tale of Alice, who got herself knotted up in those strings when Keith, her ex, asked for a little extra to go along with that friendship. No, it’s not what you think, it’s more complicated than that...

So was Alice ready to take that extra step to stay friends with Keith? Click on the tab at the top of the page called “Friends with Your Ex??” to read Alice’s story, and after you have finished laughing, consider this – could that be you?

Friends with your Ex is a tale from the book Breakup Cocktail: 5 Parts Humor, 1 Part Healing and a Twist of Revenge from Barbara Kingsley Singer
Breakup Cocktail book contains about 60 Tales including this one, but without illustrations
Copyright© 2012 Barbara Kingsley Singer

Sampling the Cocktail

If the Breakup Cocktail Tales on the tabs above made you smile and offered you a little shot of education, try the entire cocktail of around 60 tales from Amazon.com. Click here to buy on Amazon.com

Breakup Cocktail: 5 Parts Laughter, 1 Part Healing & a Twist of Revenge, by Barbara Kingsley Singer.

Relationship Tales from the Ordinary to the Outrageous!

Lust - The stepping stone from lust to cheating is opportunity. Lust & Obsession: Marc’s tale

Denial - Some benefit from their breakup, moving from ghetto to grandeur, but others wake up in a strange place after a breakup, and it’s not always because they drank too much the night before and went home with the bartender. Smacked upside the head with the breakup stick: Lynda’s tale

Casual Sex - Alcohol lets us have guilt-free casual sex, but if the stone-cold sobriety of the next morning causes us to look around and say, “Oh no, it’s you!” remember, it’s not love, and you can quit cold turkey. Single & Out of Control: Jack’s Tale

Healing - Coming home is sad—instead of being greeted at the door by a partner with a smile and a gift, you are greeted by your dog, Toby, and goodness knows you don’t want to receive a gift from him. Feeling Sorry for Yourself: Tracy’s tale

Tales that help you smile, flirt with freedom, kick-start your confidence and say goodbye to your ex. Tales that perk up lonely evenings, win back lost friends, expose dating deception and spin bad times into good. Yes, those kinds of tales.

Lively and entertaining, these stories will slide you from laughter to healing in one straight shot!

INGREDIENTS

Around 60 tales covering subjects such as: infidelity; revenge; mentally cheating; reuniting with your ex; building a shrine to them; pity sex; regret for past mistakes; believing everyone is better off than you are; bad memories; why does my ex suddenly hate me? And the rest are secret ingredients that you can only taste from the whole book. Can you handle it?

Breakup Cocktail on Amazon.com