Is it normal to want nothing to do with my ex or his friends/family?

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my ex man and i broke up nearly a year ago after 5 and 1/2 years. i since have a new man and everything is peachy. he still talks to his ex on occasion and continues casual relationships with her family through facebook (this drives me crazy, but thats another story). however, i want absolutely nothing to do with my ex or his friends or family. i deleted his number, email and his facebook friendship and even deleted the facebook friendships i had with some of his friends/family members and their phone numbers and emails as well. they didn't do anything bad, i just want nothing to do with that part of my history anymore. my boyfriend says i'm the weird one, and i beg to differ... but is this strange of me? do most people keep in touch with their ex's and their friends/family?

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  • ms_funion
    13 years ago

    it just depends on how bad the split was. i still keep in touch in some friends/family of two of my exes. if I had a good connection with them, then it doesn't have to end just bc my ex and I are no longer together.

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    • pooty85
      13 years ago

      but see, i kind of sort of disagree... i feel that continuing a connection with the family/friends of my ex, is in a way disrespectful to my current bf. i didn't nescisarily have a bad break up with my ex, i just think that continuing a "friendship" is sort of patronising. i wouldn't have known those people if it weren't for my ex, and now that it's over, i feel like "friendship" is fake and unnescessary.

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  • one_guy
    13 years ago

    Well ask yourself "was it that bad?" but nothing wrong with that I didn't want to talk to my ex did it for over one yr. And talked to her eventually, but it wasn't that bad of a break up.

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    • pooty85
      13 years ago

      no, it wasn't bad. i just met a great guy and i feel like that chapter of my life has ended and i want to put all of my energy into this new relationship. i love him and his family and he has a great set of friends. not that my ex had bad friends and family, i just think its disrespectful to my new guy to continue to harbor "friendships" with them.

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  • bleach_baby
    13 years ago

    maybe you and your ex had a nastier split then your new guy and his ex

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