my ex wants to stay friends what should i do?

[Rose R]

My ex & I split last summer after 5 years together we had a couple of breaks along the way..but he & I have never lost touch I met someone else in the autumn & my ex kept emailing me adding me as a friend on fb i tried to get him out of my head but still it carried on. My ex was in touch with me and rang me on Christmas day to talk. I would not speak to him at the time,,i was with someone else ( that didn't work out) then in January after a lot of emails I agreed to meet and talk.. explain a few things I had moved on & I met someone else but I did still love him he said that I never gave him proper closure and he had a lot of unanswered things but meeting up had answered it. he wanted to stay friends on fb and we met up recently with some other friends. I still love him and he has talked about other women he has met but hasn't worked out.. I have too met other men but none measure up to him as a person.. he wants to stay friends but I still love him what should I do? we live 70 miles apart which makes it even harder

[ella]

Hmm if any of you are in a relationship then you shouldn't keep in touch because its unfair to the person your in a relationship with. But if your not then I don't see the harm of being in touch, and you say you love him, so keeping in touch and trying to make things work would just seem like the way forward. But then again, long distance relationships can be tricky. i'd say be friends for now and if you still love him and he still loves you, then you both need to talk and find a way to make things work.

[Boudicca]

Either get back together or get rid of him completely and move on. Dragging it out like this and keeping on clinging to each other is stopping you both from living. So, one or the other. Talk to him and donl;t get back with him unless youare totally sure you have both matured enough to work out the issues you had before.
When you have a problem, be more proactive. Grab it with both hands and throttle it until it's gone, don't just mope around waiting for it to go away...