Should I be friends with my ex girlfriend again?

[Little man]

She my best friend in middle school and we dated for about 7 months. We had our goods and bad. We tried being friends after we broke up, its work for awhile, but then we went our own ways. Months later, she contacted me, saying that I promise her I would be her best bud forever. So I tried it out then I never contact her. Another year goes by, her friend contact me, telling me I need to talk to her again. Her friend say we need to be friends and everything. So, I decide to text her and we had a good conversation and everything, then I stopped talking her. Its been a year and haven't talk to her and I want to talk to her, but I feel like it would be awkward. I want to be friends with her. I'm not sure what to do.
I should of mention she has a boyfriend LOL. I ain't trying to mess with her relationship or nothing.

[Chelcea]

Well personally I feel that once you've crossed from friends to a relationship you can't go back. However if you guys talk and lay everything out on the table I don't see why not a new friendship can't be developed. It's worth a try.

[cellphone]

TALK TO HER. If she has mentioned about staying close friends then try to work it out. See if once you talk to her again you both can remain friends. It takes a lot of effort. It takes two people to keep a friendship going. If you don't contact her she assumes you want nothing to do with her so she doesn't text or contact you again. I have a difficult time with this because I have guy friends who will text me and then I will text them back and I never hear from them again for awhile, I have even had with an individual in my past. They would always expect me to start the conversation and I gave up because when it was just me contacting them I felt like I was annoying them since, they seemed to want nothing to do with me. Once I stopped contacting them they got upset because they assumed I was upset when really I was just tired of games. Not saying you are playing any games, but I think we as people need to learn how to communicate more than just through facebook. I will mention about calling someone and they want to text. I am 23 and it feels weird how these days communication is off for me. I would try to mend it and if it causes too much pain communicate this to her and she will understand.