Right, having had a mate end up going out with one of my exes before, and another mate try to crack onto one when we had only broken up about 3 weeks before, I’ve had some experience from that side so to speak… And it wasn’t nice.
But as a genuine guy who’d never do anything to hurt or annoy one of my mates on purpose, is there a general rule when approaching it from the other side? Weirdly, in the last couple of weeks, I’ve spoken with 2 girls that are both ex’s of friends of mine. Both of them if I’m honest, I fancied quite a bit when said respective mates were going out with them. Now one of them finished with my mate back in 2004, and to be honest though he was a pretty good mate, I only knew him through riding and we kinda drifted apart a bit, so I wouldn’t feel too bad about going on a date with her. The other, well she was pretty serious with one of my best mates for about 18 months, they lived together for a period etc. until it all ended pretty drastically. This was only about 12 months ago that they split up too, though he has a new GF already that he lives with and is making life plans with etc.
BOTH have expressed interest in meeting up… And both sent me their phone numbers…
Should I feel guilty at all for wanting to meet up? Especially in the latter case, where she and my mate (one of my best mates still) were so close for a fair period of time and so recently? He dumped her to be fair, so I know he’s not sore about it (and I also know he wasn’t exactly the most faithful boyfriend either)… But would it feel wrong?
Or should I just stop analysing and get the hell on with it?