Me and my “exes” are JUST friends. I feel like because my current boyfriend and I were friends first for years and now he’s my first serious relationship, [making him my first REAL boyfriend in my opinion] we could never go back to being just friends if it did end. Way too many memories and too much love. My past high school and college “boyfriends”? Why not? 2 out of 3 of my exes lasted barely a week. The last ex broke their record with a whopping 2 weeks. This is why I consider my current boyfriend as my first “real” one. I lost base with my first [sophomore in high school] “boyfriend” after i deleted my Myspace account. Whoops. The senior year in high school boyfriend was an at times annoying and always flirtatious friend first. And we have a fee mutual friends and acquaintances [including my current boyfriend]. So every several months or so he might see what im up to but thats about it. Now my last ex who I dated for about 2 weeks during the summer of my freshman year in college [going into sophomore year] just recently sort of reconnected with me. We had two classes together this past spring semester so he would text to ask about assignments. I admit that I was a little suspicious at first because he knew other people in one of our classes so why would he be texting me? And as I became friendlier towards him, he’d open up conversations with class and we’d end them talking about life and the future and goals and what not. After the semester ended he continued texting and checking in and opening up more. Turns out he and his girl had broken up about a month before. And at the time me and my boyfriend were having our issues so we would both give each other advice and words of encouragement about our situations. At one time me and boyfriend had actually split [nothing to do with the ex]. So I thought to myself that my ex would not be my rebound guy because I have no interest in dating him. Plus we were both trying to get back in our exes lives. But just in case he was thinking about the whole rebound thing- it wasnt happening. But looong story short. I believe that it just depends on the previous and current situations of if exes can be just friends. I have a really good friendship with my first college ex and its probably a combination of dating for a short period, the way and reason we ended things, and then talking again after learning we were in common love situations 2 years after our own breakup. everything is situational and intention-based. Some people are married for years with children, divorce, and are still friends afterwards. If you have no intention with ever romantically being with someone, its not going to happen. And you won’t let your friendship with an ex make your current partner feel uncomfortable