“Staying friends with your exes means you never truly loved them or you're keeping them as backup options”
Agree
- Real love creates wounds that need distance
- Maintaining contact prevents moving on fully
- Usually one person still has feelings
- It's disrespectful to future partners
Disagree
- Mature adults can separate romance from friendship
- Shared history has value beyond romance
- Not all breakups are bitter betrayals
- Cutting people off is emotionally immature
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