Can you really stay friends after a break up?

yes.. co'z 3 of my ex's are my friends.. one of those three became my bestfriend for life..

I think it is possible to stay friends. But when you each get into new relationships sometimes that friendship can dwindle away. I think it's harder to stay friends with an ex once you have started a new serious relationship. You can stay aquiantances but friendship is a little harder.

Yes, and you can even stay friends after a divorce. My wife and her ex are still civil and I'm friends with him.

It takes a certain kind of person on both ends to pull it off. There's one ex from my old hometown-- if she'd see me in the grocery store she'd run out. And another who we were good friends for several years after. In fact I still have the couch she gave me much after we broke up and I was moving into a larger apartment. It's all in who you are and who you've been with.

I think it is possible to be friends with an ex, just not right away. I am friends with one of my ex's from 12 yrs ago, but for the frist couple of months or so we didnt talk. It was the hardest thing I had to do, to learn how to be friends with him, learn to do things by myself. To this day I still have feelings for him but its a different kind of feeling than 12 yrs ago and i wouldnt trade if for the world.

Often times the reason why two people split is because one of them cheat... So if that is the case, there is no point of becoming friends right? Cheating is a NO NO for me! Being friends means you have something in common. You care for your friends, so there is no such thing as no strings attached. U should be able to trust your friends, if you gonna make your ex cheater bf a friend then you think you can trust him? Having a friend is like extending your family circle. Most of the times our best friend becomes part of our life... However, if your break up got nothing to do with cheating then it is a different issue. Just think about this, can you have someone in your life whom you cannot trust?

I think it depends on if you were friends beforehand and how the breakup happened. My ex-boyfriend and I are co-workers so we have to deal with each other. Frankly I miss being friends with him as we were before we even dated and I wish we could be friends. We aren't because he cheated on me with another woman in our building and can't look me in the eye. He also won't ever fess up and he can't even admit it to himself. So we don't hang out... but we still are friendly with each other most of the time. even outside of work...