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Is It Ever OK To Be Friends With An Ex · The Erica Show

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  Do you w and O five It's the Erica Show. Is it ever okay
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  to be friends with an ex or your significant other to be friends with their
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  ex? Did it work out? Are you still thriving in your relationship?
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  Got a listener dilemma DM from Melinda and she was like, Erica, I'm
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  having a bit of a panic attack here. I went out of town with
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  my boyfriend and his family. We went to the beach this weekend. His
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  ex's family also has a place at the beach, just a few houses down,
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  and so she stopped by not one but two nights in a row.
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  The first night to have dinner with the entire family. They clearly love her,
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  And the next night, it was after she got off the beach,
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  she came by to sit on the porch to chat with me and my boyfriend.
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  There was no flirty behavior, but it made me super uncomfortable how close
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  they were and how close she was with his family. Is it ever okay
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  to be that close with an X nine one nine eight six one O five
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  one. I could totally see where she's like filling a bit of a panic
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  At the same time, I have friendly relationships with pretty much all of my
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  exes, but I have zero feelings for them in that way. So what
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  do you think? Is it ever okay to be friends with your ex?
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  Nine one nine eight six O one oh five to one do you? And
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  I fives the air because you had a listener dilemma and she was like,
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  I don't feel very good about this. My boyfriend and his ex are still
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  really good friends, and I'm not down with that. So is it ever
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  okay to be friends with an ax? And we got Stephanie on the phone,
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  and you've got an interesting perspective. Well, I got to tell you.
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  We're about to celebrate our thirty fifth wedding anniversary and we both had our
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  exes at our wedding. Oh really, take a picture. It's in our
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  wedding album with both of our exes. Okay, So do you have a
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  close relationship with them now and do you still communicate or you just thought what
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  the heck? We absolutely are still in touch. We love their spouses,
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  my children love them. Okay, Yeah, we've maintained it.