Living in the Light

[Dawn70]

Glad you had a good weekend. I'm kind of on the fence about the friends with the X thing. For me, it depends on the situation and the X in question. My XH made a huge deal out of still wanting to be friends, even citing my own parents as a prime example of people who know how to do it right (my parents have been divorced for over 20 years; my dad has had a "wife" for over 10 now and my mom has remained single, but they still are close and we still do all of our family holidays and celebrations together as one big family and we include my dad's partner, when she wants to come). Yeah, no thanks, douchebag! But I have some other exes that I have maintained a great friendship with. Like I said, for me, just depends on the particular person.

As far as your conversations with Jack, the thing that sticks out to me is that most of the conversations, at least from my interpretation, seem to be him pretty much promising to do whatever he has to in order to get back with you. Obviously I'm not there so I only get your version of what is being said, but that is just the message I'm getting from what you are saying. I would be very wary of that. Sometimes I think cutting ties when you break up with someone is better and in my opinion, this looks like a case where it might be a better way to go. Just my opinion though. You have to do what is right for you and that may not be it.