Staying Friends After a Long Relationship & Bad Break Up ???, Opinions on Staying Friends? Options

[deteam]

How do you guys feel about staying friends after a long term relationship, that had a really bad break up ?

Should you still try to be friends....

Should you both just move on ?

Ill give examples of what happened in my situation a little later

Here's the Actual Situation:
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7 Year On/Off Relationship [Started at Age 12]
Grew Up Together
Was Each Others Best Friend/ Boyfriend/Girlfriend
Talked Marriage
Stuck With Each Other Through VERY Difficult Times

Break Up:
Caught Emotional Cheating for 3 months.
Wasn't Willing to Leave the Other Kid completely to work On Our Relationship
Wasn't Willing to Leave the Other Kid completely to work On Us Being Friends

Status Now:
Haven't Talked for 2 Months [prior to Christmas phone call]
She calls, I Ignore
She Wished Merry Christmas, and Called and that is the last we have talked.

Now She Sounds Like she really wants to talk/ be friendly again but what do you think?

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Subliminal

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i think you should just go with the flow.
yall seem really close so i'm sure you'll miss her eventually and want to forgive her.
i'm sorta like that with my friend, except with the ideas about marriage thing.

it may sound cliche, but all the fights and arguing will only bring you closer.
that's how it was for me, anyway.
but even if you don't make up i'm sure deep down you'll still be friends. if you've known someone for that long and have been through that much with them, i don't think it's that easy to move on.

[deteam]

i think you should just go with the flow.
yall seem really close so i'm sure you'll miss her eventually and want to forgive her.
i'm sorta like that with my friend, except with the ideas about marriage thing.

it may sound cliche, but all the fights and arguing will only bring you closer.
that's how it was for me, anyway.
but even if you don't make up i'm sure deep down you'll still be friends. if you've known someone for that long and have been through that much with them, i don't think it's that easy to move on.

ya i feel ya lol and i thought the same thing as well about the fighting bringing you closer . . . but one of the reasons she was "cheating" was because she said we argued to much lol ironic huh the thing that brought us closer also tore us apart lol

and i have no doubt that one day well be friends again . . . maybe something more


but the fact that she wasn't willing to give up the other guy to work on our relationship . . or give him up to work on our friendship .... isn't that like something big i should take into consideration?

like if our friendship was important to her shouldn't she have been willing to give that up earlier ?


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