To have spoken to ex?

[TrickOrTrick]

About some family/emotional problems I’m going through at the moment?

We are still semi-friendly and text a couple of times a week. I’ve had some family problems which have come to a head this week and was talking to him about them when we were chatting.

I mentioned to another friend yesterday, saying I was talking to [Joe] about it and she made out like I was deliberately telling him to try to get him to feel sorry for me, like I was hoping he’d change his mind about us if he felt I was upset.

Is that how it would have come across to him? I genuinely didn’t think anything about that, just thought of it as talking to a friend same as I would any other friend. AIBU to still talk to him about things like that?

No, it’s fine to still talk to him. I still talk to my ex and tell him lots of my problems. He’s great at helping me through them and he never thinks I want him back. Ignore your friend.

Completely up to you- and frankly none of your friends business to pass comment. No reason why you shouldn't still be friends. If you've managed to keep a friendship going, then hats off to you I say.

I agree with your friend.