Sharing a forum with your ex- nicely?

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how would you handle this situation or what do you think is the best way of handleing this situation?

I left another forum as me and my ex could not stop fighting on it, however he now is posting on here again after not coming here for 6 months.

Its very difficult situation, its hard reading his posts and not either feeling cross or missing him.

I am strongly of the opinion that the best thing to do is for me to leave the forum, however that would leave me very lonely as I dont have any real life friends.

If I stay I need to be able to find a way where I dont end up either flaming him or hanging off his every word in desperate longing.

what do you think is the best thing to do? what would you do?

should I just leave the forum, give it a clean break?

Hi Lotus......nice to hear you.

My experience with this kind of thing
is that the intensity of emotion
(longing/ loathing) soon passes.

The fourms are a life-line so be
careful not to cut YOURS.

It might be useful to draw up some
bottom lines with re not looking
up his postsand trying to stick
to them however tempting it might
be to sneek a look.

Here at WP there is plenty of room
to move compared with the smaller
sites that can easily become
oppressive in such situations.

Wishing you well and much love to
you from London.

Cx

You could always block his posts using the greasemonkey plugin for Firefox.

It's here in the FAQ in WP discussion: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp688875.html#688875

Ahh, I know how that feels. You could either try making piece with your ex (of course, I don't know your situation, so I don't know if that's possible), or just try and forget it. Something I've noticed about those types of feelings is that they tend to fade once you're faced with them a lot - it's as if you get used to it.

Dunno. It's definitely difficult. Maybe just accept that you will feel some emotion and let it wash over you and just go 'meh'. Don't respond/quote his posts and just ignore each other.

Or you could take a holiday from WP for a while until you feel emotionally stronger. Do you have another site that you feel comfortable hanging around?

Also, probably best not to create threads about each other (or relating to your relationship) on mutual forums. It just keeps the dead relationship in zombie mode.

ok, hope to see you back again sometime though, maybe when you're over the worst bit of the heartbreak

i hope you come back

Im leaveing WP

so dont worry, Im not dead

You don't have to leave WP, all you have to do is not read any posts by him or about him, and not talk about him.

Since I protect my anonymity, my ex could be here pouring her heart out and I could be offering comfort without knowing it. Having said that, she has very different issues than I do and I imagine there are other forums she enjoys.

We had to work together and raise the kids for 10 years. That was painful, but I did what I had to out of love for my children.