| Well this is not an easy case for sure.
I was living together with my ex too in the dorm when we broke up, and I could only move to the room next door. We had classes together and I saw her every day, we stayed friends anyway, and it was a tough one. I had a dry period, no girls, and she didn't have much going on either. She needs sex like a drug though, and started calling up all kinds of her exes basically to fuck her. Well, all except for one who was still obsessed with her 4 years after the break up. Oh, and there was another ex she didn't want to sleep with: ME. So you could imagine this hurted a lot but the story gets "better".
We both stayed in the dorm for the summer. Basically it was just the two of us on the entire floor, and it was very hard work for me to accept her only as a friend. The fact that she's very flirty with her friends didn't help either. The other fact that I couldn't get another lay no matter how badly I was trying also didn't help much. And just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, I got to witness how she kissed some dude on a party where both of us were invited. Story is not over, when we got home she broke down in tears and started telling me how she wanted to kill herself 2 weeks ago, and that she couldn't find her place here at the university, and how she was useless etc. etc.
There were some things that helped though... I understood that with the problems we had in the relationship, it would be impossible to manage a start over. I also had my very supportive friends behind me, and I had the will to change my life for the better.
So after 4 months of Hell(this suicidal stuff was at the end of the 4th month after our break up), things started changing. I realized that this girl needs me as a friend, and eventhough she was my ex, I still liked her. I couldn't blame her more for our disfunctional relationship than I could myself, so there was really no reason for me to act hostile. After this relization both of us became more balanced and our friendship was fully functional. Another 2 months passed and I got together with my current girlfriend, have been together with her for more than 1.5 years now, and after a few months she also found a great guy. Everything is cool now, but I literally felt like something was trying to kill me during those 4 months. Everything went almost as bad as it was possible and this is what I want to tell you:
BE PREPARED FOR SHIT LIKE THIS!!
I can't really tell you much else as an advice. Be prepared because shit always happens, and start accepting her as a friend(I assume as you were together for so long she's generally a nice and intelligent girl who is a worthy friend), and start seeking other options. It's fucking hard to move on in a situation like this, but it's a must. You'll also grow as a person when you manage to.
Good Luck,
Peace,
In$tinct
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