Food for Thought

The Scientific Reason You and Your Ex Shouldn't 'Still Be Friends'

''Staying friends with your ex may seem kinder than cutting them off entirely, but a new study just revealed that palling around with former partners isn't always in your best interest.

The study, published on April 8 in the journal Personality and Individual Differences found that subjects with "dark personality traits" and manipulative tendencies opted to stay friends with exes, but not necessarily because they valued the friendships or felt sentimentally attached to previous partners.

The reason exes wanted to stay friends.

The Oakland University psychologists who conducted the study asked 861 people to list five reasons to remain friends with an ex after a break-up, the Daily Mail reported...''

by Lucy Tiven