Sorry about your breakup.  I hope you can remain friends without it being too hard.  I also won't get into my own circumstances, but it was hard for me and my umm, "crying buddy" (the guy who let me make him cry!) to hang out like friends for a long time after our relationship ended.  We had to make a really clean, distant break in order to end it and finally get through to the other side.  Years later, we're friends, though mostly in spirit as there are now various reasons that we can't really hang out in person.   But I would still call him a good friend, for sure -- a good friend with complications. 

Sending huge hugs meantangerine, a tough time for sure. Hope things get a bit easier for you soon.

I'm sorry, meantangerine. That's a tough thing. Big hugs.

Last edited by carrotcake (September 3, 2012 5:28 am)

Thanks, everyone. I'm hanging on alright. It still feels like we're in tune with each other, even though we haven't spoken (just a couple texts and an email) for about 2 1/2 weeks. Whenever I feel like I'm going to lose it without him, it turns out he's thinking about me too. One time I was crying in my bed, missing him, and then I got a text from him with an old inside joke. Then last night I was crying again (heartbroken sobbing kind of crying), and I find out today that he was about to call me around that time, but he got a call from home instead, so had to talk to his parents. I sure wish he had called, just for comfort's sake, but I think if I had cried on the phone it would have been counterproductive. We're trying to salvage a friendship, slowly and carefully.

I just really miss chatting with him about nothing in particular. That's caused the biggest void.