I am quite disappointed in myself. The number of posts I write is pitiful. Blogging is something I have really wanted to do ever since my sister Andrea started hers. I have tons of things I would like to blog about, but for some reason I never make time to sit down and write, which is completely ridiculous, because I find all sorts of time to do other completely useless things like play spider solitaire! I would really like to get in the habit of posting at least every other day. It really doesn’t take that long. Also, I have been trying to think more about what types of things I would like to talk about on here. I have noticed that some of the reason I don’t look forward to posting is because I have mostly been writing about what I have been doing lately, and I don’t find that interesting to write about at all (although I love to read what others are up to!). So I have decided I am just going to write more about what is on my mind lately and less about what I have been doing. Soooo….Here is my question then.
Do you think it is OK to try and be friends with ex boyfriends or girlfriends? I have been thinking about this issue a lot lately, because I have been advised by some of my family members that it is not a good idea to hang out with guys I have dated, and I don’t know how I feel about this issue. I have dated some really nice guys, and I feel like it would be a shame to let those friendships die just because things didn’t work out, especially if we broke up on good terms. Some of my family told me that if it wasn’t a mutual break up and they still like you then you shouldn’t hang out because that is like leading them on and making them think you might get back together. However, I don’t see how it is really any different than having guys who are friends, which you never dated, but like you. Isn’t it leading them on to hang out with them? I haven’t had any guy friends who I hang out with and talk to on a regular basis who at one point or another did not develop some sort of a crush on me. Does that mean that as soon as I found out they liked me I should have stopped being their friend because hanging out with them might give them the wrong idea? Or do I simply explain to them that I don’t have those feelings for them nor want to be anything more than friends with them, the same way I could with an ex boyfriend? Hmm….