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Can You Stay Friends With Your Ex After an Affair?
Can you actually be friends with your ex? I dug into the research, including the four motivations people land on when they stay in each other's lives after a breakup and the data on who's most likely to do it. Then I went a few layers deeper than the typical conversation goes. Friends with your ex in general is one question. Friends with your ex after divorce is another. Friends with your ex after infidelity is harder. And if you were the other woman, that's a different conversation entirely.
I share my own examples on all of it. I'm still friends with my ex-husband a decade out. I also…
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