How long are your ex's off limits to friends/family?

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How long do you think an ex-boyfriend/girlfriend should be off limits to your friends and family?

Strangely enough, for me, it’s like, forever…
My sisters on the other hand, have both gone out with boyfriends of each other with a simple “are you done with this one?” or some such exchange.

When they (sometimes both at different times) go out with an ex of mine, it drives me insane! I don’t care if its a week ago, or 20 years ago, it just drives me nuts! It’s like it somehow cheapens ME, although I know thats not true since I was there first and I didn’t make the decision to “keep it in the family”.

This has happened numerous times, with people I was “serious” about, people I was still dating, once I walked in the house and “my” boyfriend was sitting on the couch with my sister! Thats how I found out they were dating, instead of me and him!

None of these relationships that they had were ever very sucessful, if they had ended up getting married and being in love forever or something, I would not think about it twice, I would have just stood aside with best wishes. Thats never been the case. Most of the times its just a fling or a booty call.

Am I nuts? Too possessive? Any comments?

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Yes, you are too possessive of nuts :smiley:

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Ooops, I thought I was in “In My Humble Opinion”. Can somebody move this?

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Since I never fancied any of my sister’s ex-boyfriends, nor she any of my ex-girlfriends, I’m not qualified to answer from my own family experience.

In my younger years I did fall prey to a girlfriend’s older sister. GF caught us together and went to her parents with this choice bit of information. The end was quick and not pretty, as the parents declared me off limits to both of them.
Geez! I thought we could have worked something out. :frowning:

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Since you’ve already restarted this thread in IMHO, I’ll just lock this one off.