I don’t think we realize just how powerful our thoughts are and just how much a seemingly simple belief can effect our life. From major ways to your views/beliefs about intimacy to small things like can men and women be just friends, these ideas shape our philosophy and ultimately find themselves woven into the very the fabric of our lives and relationships. I mention this because I personally happen to believe that men and women can’t just be friends because eventually one if not both will start to develop feelings. That thought was followed by a simultaneous one that a man and woman won’t even embark on a friendship unless one finds the other remotely attractive. And it’s a belief of mine that I’ve never questioned and therefore have lived by it, until now. So I’ve gone from thinking, it can’t be possible to wondering if in fact it could be. The jury is still out so I’ll get back to you on that. But I most certainly welcome your input.
Which leads me to the focus of this post which is, believe it or not: can you be friends with an ex? I was talking with my mother one day and for some reason she mentioned that once a dog attacks a human, they have to be put to sleep because once they taste human blood, they will always have an appetite and propensity to do it again. I was shocked to have heard that because it’s something I was never aware of previously. But it made a great deal of sense and it made me think of when “love bites” in the sense that once you’ve experienced being in a relationship with a person, is it possible to just be friends? Or will your heart always yearn to experience the feelings that so dear to you? And in those instances is it best to just put the entire relationship to sleep? Or is one capable of having a platonic friendship with someone you previously called boo? When love bites, do you go on as if it never did?
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