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I contacted my blog manager (my friend that gives me a lot of ideas) for what I should write about next since the list goes on and on for what ideas I have and we settled on what is the protocol for seeing an ex in public? I believe this is a question that often goes unsaid or gives a false sense of neutraility. Majority of people end things and either say we can stay friends to break the ice or absolutely despise each or both. I fear I am in the both category for most of my exes. There are, of course, different forms of exes: ex-boyfriends/girlfriends/partners, ex-flings, ex-situationships, ex-sneaky links, the list goes on because lately we have so many definitions of unofficial relationships. Frankly, I think all the exes I'm not actively friends with, I do not contact and if I saw them I would not say hi to them either, which are all men, all the women were no hard feelings. Does staying friends with an ex actually work? I can think of two examples out of all the people I know and one ex-couple got back together (and now broken up again) or the other couple have moved on to different partners. which now brings me to friendcest. if you don't know or haven't experienced friendcest, then lucky you. but for the sake of the blog, friendcest is when friends in the same friend group date each other, but i will go more into friendcest in another post. anyways, but if your ex is in your friend group...then what? i think in a perfect world you would say a simple hello or wave when seeing your ex, but instead we prefer pretending they don't exist lol. which i think is also a good option, but reminds me of so many songs about how can one pretend that they never loved you, or pretending everything they experienced with each other meant nothing? which made me kinda sad, like i had happiness from you at one point and now we act like none of that ever happened. it's unfortunate that our typical protocol for seeing an ex is making them our mortal enemy lol.