How do you feel about your ex's?

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Orsorum

Lifer
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Have two ex's from high school that I haven't seen or talked to in years... have one that I dated for my senior year of high school that I run into every now and then - I don't have any particular malice towards her anymore, but I don't care much for her personality.
 

Mustangrrl

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Oct 10, 1999
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My most recent ex, Dudefish (Dave), is a good friend of mine, and I still care about him deeply. We lived together for almost five years, and even when we were pissed at each other, we were always best friends. It's weird, but, it's like he's family.

My current boyfriend (or whatever it is) will most likely not remain in my good graces after I dump him, I can already feel it.
~robyn
 

Siddhartha

Lifer
Oct 17, 1999
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Originally posted by: hzl_eyed_grl
I was thinking about this earlier. How many of you still have feelings for, still love, or are still in love with any of your ex's?

How about adding "Not sure how I feel"?

 

habib89

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Jan 17, 2001
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my longtime girlfriend broke up with me a few months ago.. we were together for 6.5 years... she really broke up with me, but i realize that it is probably better for both of us to move on..

i wouldn't say i still have feelings for her.. i would say we're still friends.. but it's something more than just friends.. she's definately not my "lover" anymore, but she's not just one of my regular friends either.. i dont' have loving feelings for her anymore, but.. i dunno.. it's hard to explain.. maybe some of you out there know what i mean though..

i think the feelings between us went away a while ago.. we just both hung on to each other because we wished that we could be together.. and if you're with someone that long, you just get used to the person, and like having them around.. don't get me wrong.. i loved her.. and i still do.. but i don't love her that way anymore

if you want to add another category, like something inbetween "i still have feelings.." and "we're just friends" you can call it the "habib syndrome"
 

BD231

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Feb 26, 2001
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I had a lady friend of 2.5 years (knew her for 6 years before that) randomly break the ties on me about a year ago, she never made it clear why, and I never really persued the answer after asking her a few times and never getting one. She started seeing other guy's and a month and a half later she said she regretted the decision and missed me. I truely loved her because we knew everything about eachother and were really amazing friends for such a long time, and I know she felt the same way even when she broke up with me. The way she just kind of threw everything away and gave me the "can we still be friends" speech was insanely lame and I just couldn't bring myself to feel the same way about her after something as shallow as that. I also found out she had slept with someone FROM HER. I never slept with her, and I NEVER thought she would even THINK of having sex with me or anyone else for that matter(she always seemed like that nice little christian raised girl), I certainly never thought of it though (she was 18 and I was 17 at the time). Heh, maybe that's why she cut me loose, I wasn't giving her "the lovin", all the more reason I didn't want anything else to do with her, I was not ready to deal with that mess and I'm still not. We kissed and stuff but I never let it stem outside of that.

I STILL miss her though, I'm not usually a very open person when it comes to feelings and she opened me like a book whenever I was around her. I went out with this girl last month and she TOTALY made herself out to be a very moral, sweet and smart young lady when I met her, she was very pretty AND had a VERY nice car too!!. So I'm thinkin this is my lucky day. On the second date (chill out and do stuff session as I like to call it) what happens?, she gets touchy feely and says "will you milk me baby" :Q. WHAT THE F*CK is all I could think the whole time I was walkin my ass home. ladies have been WACK for me these day's, I can never find a calm one with her head on straight. I just decided I'm not messing with them till I get older.
 

Kevin

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Jan 1, 2002
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Originally posted by: DougK62
I think so. I dated my ex for a year and a half. We were very serious and started to talk about marriage. I found out that she had cheated on me with at least two other guys. We broke up and I haven't given two thoughts to it. I see her every once in a while and we act civil. I have zero feelings for her now.

Buy you still have feelings for her. Maybe I read the first post wrong but and associate feelings with actual feelings and like feelings meaning love/like. I've had relationships that didn't last very long, so I feel nothing towards them. We'll bump into each other and talk but thats about it. There was one breakup that both of us really went overboard. Now we avoid each other at all costs. I have feelings for her, mostly disgust though.

Doug - You're saying that you see this person and you just pretend they are just anyone walking down the street? Nothing from the past comes to mind?
 

Koing

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Oct 11, 2000
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Originally posted by: BD231
I had a lady friend of 2.5 years (knew her for 6 years before that) randomly break the ties on me about a year ago, she never made it clear why, and I never really persued the answer after asking her a few times and never getting one. She started seeing other guy's and a month and a half later she said she regretted the decision and missed me. I truely loved her because we knew everything about eachother and were really amazing friends for such a long time, and I know she felt the same way even when she broke up with me. The way she just kind of threw everything away and gave me the "can we still be friends" speech was insanely lame and I just couldn't bring myself to feel the same way about her after something as shallow as that. I also found out she had slept with someone FROM HER. I never slept with her, and I NEVER thought she would even THINK of having sex with me or anyone else for that matter(she always seemed like that nice little christian raised girl), I certainly never thought of it though (she was 18 and I was 17 at the time). Heh, maybe that's why she cut me loose, I wasn't giving her "the lovin", all the more reason I didn't want anything else to do with her, I was not ready to deal with that mess and I'm still not. We kissed and stuff but I never let it stem outside of that.

I STILL miss her though, I'm not usually a very open person when it comes to feelings and she opened me like a book whenever I was around her. I went out with this girl last month and she TOTALY made herself out to be a very moral, sweet and smart young lady when I met her, she was very pretty AND had a VERY nice car too!!. So I'm thinkin this is my lucky day. On the second date (chill out and do stuff session as I like to call it) what happens?, she gets touchy feely and says "will you milk me baby" :Q. WHAT THE F*CK is all I could think the whole time I was walkin my ass home. ladies have been WACK for me these day's, I can never find a calm one with her head on straight. I just decided I'm not messing with them till I get older.

Your a romo.......j/k

girls love sex and the feelings it gives them. You were simply not doing that for them so they gor bored or wanted it from someone else. Like if you needed a girl to be caring and she wasn't you would go for someone else right? Same thing...

How is it looking for a girl that isn't interested in sex so quickly?

 

Soong

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welp...now that i think about this more... there is a good chance my wife maybe come my ex... in that case ... i'll always have strong feelings for her... i think i'll always be in love with her
 

Whisper

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Went out with my most involved ex for two years. No longer feel love towards her, though we're still friends. It's quite possible to be involved with someone, be in love with them at the time, and then later not have any romantic feelings towards them. At least for me. Given the chance, I wouldn't get back together with her...didn't work out the first time, I know why, and so it wouldn't work out again. Very close friends with another ex as well, and again, no romantic feelings there, either. Guess it just depends on how you deal with the break-up, how you view relationships, and how you think of love.
 

hzl eyed grl

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Dec 28, 1999
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Originally posted by: Stark
is thread about xerox man?

i don't know if the world is ready for "as the ATOT turns" soap-opera. :p
LOL! X-Man and I are still very good friends. Right X-Man? ;)

I was just thinking about this the other night. There are ex's that I'm still friends with and there's others that I haven't seen or talked to in years.

My current boyfriend (or whatever it is) will most likely not remain in my good graces after I dump him, I can already feel it.
Uh oh....Should I kick his booty while I'm there? Wait. . . You are probably more able that I am to do that. ;) LOL
 

Mustangrrl

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Oct 10, 1999
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Originally posted by: hzl_eyed_grl
My current boyfriend (or whatever it is) will most likely not remain in my good graces after I dump him, I can already feel it.
Uh oh....Should I kick his booty while I'm there? Wait. . . You are probably more able that I am to do that. ;) LOL
Please, beat him down. He's so irritating! :D
 

djheater

Lifer
Mar 19, 2001
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Linuxboy and I agree....

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds,
or bends with the remover to remove.


Those whom I have loved I still love. Love is not subject to the whims of ego. What I mean to say is, although there are some women I have loved who I no longer can be around due to the courses our lives have taken, those I have loved I still and will always in some capacity love....

For those who evince hate. What is hate but an absence where love once was....
 
Dec 28, 2001
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I was just going through some stuff in my room (my brother and I used to share rooms and he changed the layout since I live in an apartment now), saw a homecoming picture I had with my g/f and was wondering what the hell I was thinking to mess up with her - sweetest girl in the world, but I had to mess it up - I haven't seen her in 4 years :(

And yes, I've had other g/f's after her, but I feel like I missed out on something with her . . .. :frown:
 

sobriquet

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Sep 10, 2002
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My first girlfriend and I are still pretty good friends, though she's in Mississippi for college so I basically never see her anymore. My last and most involved girlfriend broke up with me because she "thought" she still had feelings for her ex, and wanted to "take a break" to figure things out. Well, after the break, she discovered she didn't like her ex, and apparently she didn't love me anymore either. I tried hard to stay her friend, but I had difficulty discarding the intense feelings I had for her. We just drifted apart, and we've seen each other twice in the last two years (both times were very awkward and rigid).