Should You Force a Friendship With An Ex?

Love Life with Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

You broke up with him…and broke his heart. But time has passed, and now he wants to try to be friends. You miss hanging out and having a laugh with him, so what’s the harm? After all, you’re totally over those romantic feelings. The problem is, he isn’t. Is this “friendship” a good idea? What if he has ulterior motives to try to get back together? That’s what our caller, Tyrie, wants to know in today’s episode of LOVE Life. Whether you’ve been on one side of this relationship or the other, I know you’ll relate to the “friends with an ex” dilemma too, so be sure to listen in for my advice on how to handle this situation with honesty and compassion so no one reopens the wounds of the past.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Matthew Hussie, welcome to Love Life. It's a privilege to be able to offer you
0:07.7	bite-sized bits of advice on this podcast that you can use every day. But what if you're
0:12.9	ready for a big transformation and you want to do it now? You want to reinvent your career
0:17.8	or finally find lasting love or break free from the self-doubt that's holding you back
0:22.6	from living the abundant life you were meant to live. If you're saying yes, Matt, that's
0:27.1	me. I'm going to tell you exactly how to do just that at the end of today's show. So
0:32.0	make sure you stay tuned. First, let's get to today's episode.
0:39.7	We have a caller today.
0:42.4	What?
0:43.4	A caller. Are you there?
0:45.4	This, yeah, I'm here. How are you doing?
0:47.8	I'm great. And your name is Tyree, am I right?
0:50.7	Yeah, that's right. You pronounce it right too.
0:53.9	Well, I'm very happy about that. Are you having a good day? Are you excited to be on the
0:57.8	line?
0:58.8	I am. I'm excited. This is so cool.
1:00.7	I know it's crazy. It's crazy. Fate has brought us together. What's your question?
1:05.9	All right. So my question was there's this ex-boyfriend of mine, right? We've been broken
1:11.1	up for like six months now. And I was wondering if it's cool to still be friends with the guy
1:16.4	if I kind of get like the feeling that he still likes me. He's still sort of into me,
1:22.4	but I'm not. But then again, I'm afraid that you know, he might get his hopes up about
1:27.7	our friendship and then you know, things are going to start happening where I don't,
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