Bring friends with ex's new girlfriend

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Just that really. Is anyone here friends with their ex's girlfriend/wife? I've met her couple times and she seems really nice. I'm not naive and I'll have my boundaries, just wondering if it happens?

If it happens it happens. Depends on your relationship with your ex too. If you can get along then great! Just dont be ex bashing all the time and refrain from "he never did that when we......"

@CynthiaRothrock thanks for replying :) I don't really talk about him, but if she ask why we split up etc should I tell her?

I assume you have kids with your ex ? its nice you can be friendly with his new girlfriend but i wouldnt go into too much detail about why you split with your if ir paints him in a bad light. I would be quite vague .

I have a good friend who is friends with her husband's ex. Her husband and friend lived together for a number of years, weren’t compatible, broke up but remained friends. The ex is married with children. When my friend entered the picture, the ex went out of her way to be very friendly with my friend to ensure friendship would continue. There’s no funny business going on. My friend is now married over 20 years to her husband and the ex too.

So yes, I can see it happen and don’t think yabu

My DP and his dad's ex wife still see one another as she was his step mum for years and a huge part of his life. DPs mum was always good friends with her as they were all helping to raise DP. Even though his step mums not married to his dad anymore they're best friends and often meet up! So yes DPs mum was very good friends her ex's new wife.

I was really close to my exes gf. We just happened to meet somewhere else and formed a tight friendship really quickly. Unfortunately ex did not like it and put a stop to it. Shame really... That said I was always having to bite my tongue about what an arsehole he was

You can tell her but dont be nasty about him. (Unless he was an abusive narc). I have been friendlywith an exs new partner, we just we're not compatible together but we used to be great at being friends (till they split up amd his new p has stopped him.talking to anyone from his past life!)

I used to be friends with my ex and he used to be friendly with my now ex as well, until his now wife came on the scene. We all used to go out clubbing together and to the pub etc..

My ex's new gf worked with one of our mutual (his and my) friends. Mutual friend introduced me to her as friend from work before telling me she was the new gf. Long story short, I have a best friend of 12 years now and he is the long gone ex of both of us.

I’m friends with a not-very-serious ex of DH’s - at this point we’ve been friends longer than they were together. We knew who each other were, and she came over to chat to me as I’d brought myself to a new toddler group on a whim and didn’t know anyone else there.

SIL is friends/friendly with her ex’s wife. SIL has a kid with this ex. Apparently this ex was a real twat with SIL, but has cleaned up his act since. So his wife took SIL out clubbing and insisted she pay for all the drinks, saying “This is ex’s money too, drinks are on him tonight for all the shit he put you through.”

@TheMobileSiteMadeMeSignup aw that's nice! but I don't really think we will be BFF. I'm just scared I'll get carried away when she asks me why we got divorced. He put me through hell for 8 years, but i try to be amicable because of the our children. I think to say "we just weren't compatible " is a bit meh.