Could You Be Friends With An Ex?

Maintaining a healthy relationship with a former partner works for some people, but isn’t always that easy…

- Mishaal Khan

YES

‘We have respectful boundaries’

Julie Waddell, 47, runs Moorish, a houmous and dips brand, and lives in Dartmouth with her husband Phil, 47, and their children, aged 16 and 14.

Staying friends with an ex shouldn’t be an issue. I’m still friends with the man I dated for three years from the ages of 18 to 21. After spending the majority of our relationship apart at different universities, we knew it was time to call it a day in 1995. Ending things was our best chance at salvaging a friendship.