Yes it does.

This is an area that I maybe considered and expert. I have no problems being friends with them but a few have problem being friends with me LOL.

One of my Ex-wives (divorced 27 years) is driving from Santa Monica to Laguna Hills (long way) to take me for dinner after she found out I was back for a short visit, her new husband does not know she is meeting me.

I am flying to Sacramento to visit my kids and I will try to avoid their mother. She is a bitter person with a violent Irish temper and she is married to a coup.

Some of my ex-girlfriends that were closer to me than my ex-wives are still in contact with me sharing their problems with kids and husbands with me, we are good friends.

I don’t burn bridges, don’t hold grudges and just try to be open and honest with how I feel and what I think so it makes it easy for me to be friends with my Ex(s). It takes Billions of years and infinity of things to happen exactly the way it did for any relationship to form, I don’t take that for granted. Relationships don’t end, they change us for ever and shape how things will be for Billions of years in the future.

Letting him/her go

The racing of the heart when you saw your crush, the cheeks turning red every time you were caught staring at him, that sweet, nagging ache when you didn't see him for a day .... does all of this remind you of your first love? They say that one never forgets his/her first love. Hence, getting over it must be one of the most painful experiences of one's life. But is every lover's prayer answered? Sadly no. We all have to learn to live with rejections and denials. For some of us, first love is just one of those gambles that we lose. The ache is so strong that we feel we would never be the same. But we know that life cannot go on like this forever. So the next question that arises is, 'how to get over your first love?'

'"Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go"'. - Kate Winslet.

'"There’s no need to miss someone from your past. There’s a reason they didn’t make it to your future"'. - Anonymous.

'"Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go"'. - Oprah Winfrey.

'"Every happy couple has at least one breakup behind them"'. - Anonymous.

'"There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life"'. - Anonymous.

"Stand up and walk out of your history". - Phil McGraw.

Juicy Cherry that is an interesting name.

Did Kate Winslet really say that or was it written for her in a movie?

So it seems that it was secret for her.And you told this in public.

yea u can say friends. a friend that u wish him happy and will say hi when u meet him but not a friend u want to call when u need someone specially when u find the next one.

I'm friends with pretty much all of my exes. The interesting thing is that in the year before I moved to Japan, I broke up with one girl, who wouldn't talk to me, and started dating another, who fell in love with me. Unfortunately, I already had plans to move to Japan, and she wasn't part of them.

So I moved to Japan, and she wouldn't talk to me, but my ex that wouldn't talk to me started mailing me!

I didn't end up talking to the one that I left behind until about two months ago (this is almost ten years later). She said it was just too hard, because she was so hurt when I left. I can understand that, but truth be told if she had kept talking to me, I probably would have gone home to her after a year, rather than staying here the ten years that I have.

As always...
it depends
on the person, on the relationship, on circumstances

I would be happy to stay friends with every single one of my exes. Why not? I'm able to move on, and meanwhile I still hold all the girls I dated seriously in very hard regard (if not, what the hell was I doing with them in the first place?)... and with everything we've been through - with how well we know each other - why not honor that and keep a friendship?

Some of my exes refuse to talk to me. One or two I'm still good friends with. Most I'm in touch with, but not regularly.
For whatever reason, the girl I hurt the most still talks to me regularly (though we're in opposite time zones), and I'm really happy about it. Of course, that was only after a year of cold shoulder.
On the other hand, another girlfriend I hurt a lot remained a close friend (even after getting another boyfriend).... then a year later we had an argument and we've never talked since. In all fairness, it was probably my fault...

All flavors of the rainbow

Oh, beast..you are cool....and honest....