Talk about the situation until their's closure. Give each other space to keep busy and do other things hang out with other people and in time you'll forget about them.

You shouldnt.. its not healthy

I can t , I don t understand how anyone can, Love is not like a switch that you can turn on or off, its there and if you around the person you love and its not returned, it hurts and gets frustrating. I don t see why people put themselves through it. ( but thats just me and how I feel)

You really cant. It wont hold up......I've tried it and its WAY TO HARD...........You'll end up sleeping together again, getting jealous when they talk to other girls, making him feel bad enough to take you back, then get back together, then you'll just go through that cycle over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. You gotta eventually let go, cause as nice as it sounds to remain friends with someone you were with for so long and still love. it wont ever happen. Once you completely move on and let go, maybe you would be able to maintain a friendship, but until you truley move on and are happy with yourself, and over the guy, you should NOT try it.

I dont think you can be just friends with someone you have feelings for...being "just friends" means that you arent "in love" with that person...you have a different set of feelings for friends. do yourself(and him or her) a favor and move on...put some space inbetween and get on with your life. this doesnt mean that somewhere down the road you cant be friends! just means its not possible right now.

I don't understand why anybody would want to be 'just friends' with a person they are in love with. The only explanation I can think of would be if the person you love doesn't love you. I'm afraid you would just have to learn to cope with that reality and wait and see whether you can maintain any sort of relationship. My guess is that it would be too hard.

My girlfriend and I just broke up two days ago. And she really wants to be friends. she likes me being around and to talk to,but she don't have time for a serious relation ship. Between her job and spending time with her daughter, she don't have time. she works between 12 and 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, and spends a few hours with her daughter each day and I respect that. after 5 months, We broke up on good terms and she wants to continue being friends. How do you be "friends" ?. We won't be friends. We might talk on the phone until that runs out from time to time. or until I see her with her new man "looking kind of happy" feeling like, Someone just slap me. thats deep. But I don't know. "FRIENDS" yeah right. like thats going to happen. Can someone answer that?

Im going to be absolutely honest with you. You can't be friends right now especially if you still love him. I dated my ex for a year and seven months and we have been broken up for 3 months now and he's been through one girlfriend and on too a new one and im absolutely still in love with him and I tried to convince myself that I could just make my feelings go away and be his friend but boy was I wrong. I found out he had a new girlfriend and it killed me inside. When he broke up with the first girlfriend after me I thought if I stayed his friend and stayed close we could get back together but it didn't work. Its not fair to you to have to surpress your feelings just to be friends. Don't lie to yourself be true to yourself. And if your ex has a new person in their life they are not going to take lightly to the fact that they are friends with you which will put more stress on you especially since you love him. This is going to hurt but you got to get away..take time away from him. Maybe in time you can be friends but not now that your still in love. You will just keep falling down like I did. This time get up and be fair to yourself and walk away..Its not goodbye forever. Its going to be a long tough road but we can do it. Be strong! Take everything a day at a time.

You can't, without making yourself utterly miserable. If you really want to eventually be friends with this person, let some time pass...a significant amount, a few months at least, and then try to form a friendship.

this isn't an answer but a question.. everyone keeps saying "no you cant be friends with someone you love with, its too hard and it will just hurt too much" and i know that.my boyfriend and i broke up about 3 months ago and have tried to do the "just friends" thing and it is hard and at first we tried to hang out as "friends" but like you said we ended up sleeping together again and all the feelings were still there and it just made things harder we just keep going round and round in circles and yeah im pretty much agreeing with everything you guys have said coz thats where i am right now BUT... you also say give up dont stick it out, if one of you isn't in love anymore your just wasting your time so my question is.. what if you are???? i know i still love him and he loves me but we keep going round and round in circles and having all the same arguments about whether or not we should get back together. he says he still loves me but is messing me around and says he just wants to be friends. WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE LOVE IS STILL THERE BUT YOUR IN THAT" JUST FRIENDS STAGE? help?