7. It’s Tough on Friends and Family
Friend groups tend to intersect when you’re in a relationship. You become chummy with your significant other’s pals and they buddy up with yours. Maybe you already shared a mutual friend group before officially dating. Once a breakup occurs, friends are divided. Although no one really wants to, and although it’s certainly not easy, they will pick sides. Bonds will be severed; you’ll be unfriended on Facebook and other social media. Family, of course, will naturally favor you, no matter how nice that your ex was and how well he or she treated your parents.
If you get back together with your ex, you’re asking your friends and family to forget about all of that side-taking that they did. If you commiserated with your mom or your bestie about your ex and talked some crap, you’re now insisting that these people dismiss all the mean things you said and treat your ex nicely. It’s a lot to ask of someone, and it tends to make things very awkward. No one ever forgets about the heartbreak that led to the first breakup, and your relationships with friends and family will never quite be as smooth as they once were.
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