Date your friend's ex, can you?

You finally found the ideal guy. It meets all the characteristics that the ideal boyfriend needs to have and break, yet is a cat. It could be your chance to start investing in the cause and throw all your charm into hooking the prince if it weren't for one detail: he's your friend's ex.

Everything could be simpler if we could control our feelings and choose who we like and when we like it, but unfortunately it doesn't work that way. Solving a dilemma like this is complicated, but there are a few things you need to consider that can help with the decision.


Before or not to start a romance with a friend's ex, it is always best to use sincerity to clarify the situation. If you are a close friend, you can simply state your intentions and? Warn? who will date her ex.

If it happens to a friend with whom you have a lot of freedom, open the game, talk frankly and find out how she feels about it.

Make it clear to your friend that you would not really like to have to choose between two people you really like. Making choices is always difficult, but they are necessary.


If you're sure the relationship between you two won't be shaken, green light. Otherwise, it's time to rethink the subject. Remember that men can come and go, but trust-based friendships remain and respect must always come first.

And what is the best way to decide on the subject? The answer is to follow your heart and what your feelings say, without forgetting to consider all the relevant aspects about the potential of the relationship and the level of your friendship.

In any case, avoid the temptation to do things on the sly. She can figure it all out and dealing with a betrayal is always worse and more complicated than understanding the situation of seeing the ex involved with one of her friends. Also, lack of honesty can cost the end of romance and worse, the end of friendship.

The other side

If the story between the two of them is really over and the boy is very single, lucky you. The fact is, willy-nilly, your friend's turn is over and she'll have to deal with it. After all, everyone has the right to try to be happy and in some moments of life we ​​need to recognize that we have lost.

Just as you believe you have the right to live this feeling now, it may be that one day you are in the same position as your friend. So always think of both sides.

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