My feelings on being good friends after D, go like this. I won't be able to, because I'll always be looking and hoping for it to be more.
Besides, if she wants to end the M, then I want her to go out and find whatever it is she's looking for, on her own. If she ever decides she wants back in, (highly likely in my mind) I might be open to it at that time.
How's that for getting ahead of myself? lol
M: A really long time. Crisis: 5 years. She's still worth it.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. -Viktor Frankl