Should we normalize friendships between former lovers?

By Patricia Mashiri

I know most people will not agree with today’s post but I just felt I had to let it out.

Don’t get it twisted love is a beautiful thing, one popular musician once said but when love fails should we resort to friendship?? That’s the billion dollar question.

Usually when someone ask you to be his/her friend after breakup will still be in love with you and not ready to let you go so their plan will be of keeping you by their side monitoring on all your potential boy/girlfriends and most probably chasing them away.

Some will be doing regular check-ups to see whether you are making any positive strides in your life or not so that they will gossip about you.

Others call or texts just to irritate you (smh) thank God we now own cell phones with blacklist and block features because some people are not to be entertained. Trust me these are the kind of people who will destroy your newly found love. Psychopaths really exist and if not handled well they will destroy you.

Loneliness at times contributes to some people’s mental instability especially during this time of lock down that’s when the scrolling through contacts syndrome starts looking for someone to text starts. This is where people try to normalize friendships between former boy/girlfriends.

Should this be tolerated?????

I think everyone need their space from all those nagging ex(es) unless it is a special case like there are kids involved etc. Therefore we should be detached from all ex lovers.

Get me right I’m not saying after breakup people should become enemies of some sort but each other’s distance should be respected.

Of course times are changing, opinions, backgrounds, cultural beliefs and religions differ therefore people practice what they feel is right that’s why today’s topic is open for discussion.

The question remains should we normalize friendships between former lovers?

My thoughts,bring in yours too

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