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re: Picking sides with newly divorced friends

Posted on 10/14/19 at 2:34 pm to
Posted by ShoeBang
Member since May 2012
21806 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 2:34 pm to
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seem that she is inviting me over knowing I am dating someone and really dont GAF.


A BJ between friends really isn't a big deal, I say go and see what happens.
Posted by Pelican fan99
Lafayette, Louisiana
Member since Jun 2013
38885 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 2:35 pm to
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What other reason would you have to choose the woman unless you were trying to bang her?


exaxtly
Posted by The Spleen
Member since Dec 2010
38865 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 2:36 pm to
We had a rash of divorces in our friend group about 10 years ago. In a span of about 3 years, 4 or 5 couples got divorced.

We never felt like we had to choose, 10 years later there's only one of those couples that we still see both former spouses with any regularity, and they had a very amicable split. These things tend to take care of themselves usually.
Posted by Boudreaux35
BR
Member since Sep 2007
22281 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 2:39 pm to
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All of a sudden I was asked by her to come to her new house and help her with some plumbing issues


Admit it, you stole that from the plot of a porn movie you watched over the weekend.
Posted by TDsngumbo
Member since Oct 2011
49117 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 2:40 pm to
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Picking sides with newly divorced friends

Is going to end badly. Just frick the ex wife hard and get the process of losing friends forever over with like ripping off a bandaid.
Posted by Monday
Prairieville
Member since Mar 2013
5134 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 2:45 pm to
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just be nice to both of them

This is the only advice unless it's some egregious divorce. I have a good friend who recently split up with his wife. I talk to him often but am nice and cordial with her when I see her.
Posted by schlodc
Member since Dec 2015
39 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 2:48 pm to
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We had a rash of divorces in our friend group about 10 years ago. In a span of about 3 years, 4 or 5 couples got divorced.

We never felt like we had to choose, 10 years later there's only one of those couples that we still see both former spouses with any regularity, and they had a very amicable split. These things tend to take care of themselves usually.


Agree with this. You don't have to pick sides because the couple will pick sides for you. Apparently couples that go through a divorce do a "friends draft" and pick which friends they want to keep. We had a couple get divorced and we got drafted by the wrong side. It sucked.
Posted by YumYum Sauce
Arkansas
Member since Nov 2010
9363 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 2:51 pm to
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because the couple will pick sides for you


no


the dude will just want to go drink/stare at women/ask advice on how to approach women after XX years being married


the woman will want to tell you how awful the dude was, and get you "on her side" because thats what matters to her.
Posted by ZappBrannigan
Member since Jun 2015
7692 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 2:51 pm to
Piihhb

Make em both refer to you as The Bull and give them something to bond over again.
Posted by GeeOH
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2013
13376 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 2:59 pm to
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Even weirder shite man. All of a sudden I was asked by her to come to her new house and help her with some plumbing issues.

I'm not married but am dating someone and she knows that.


Ahe will use this in a fight to hurt him, get ready. Call him and ask him if hes good with you helping her out
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
91326 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:02 pm to
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just be nice to both of them

This is the only advice unless it's some egregious divorce. I have a good friend who recently split up with his wife. I talk to him often but am nice and cordial with her when I see her.

we got burned after a nasty divorce when the person who came over crying about being screwed over ended up being the crazy person.

in short - don't assume you understand what's going on in someone else's relationship because you don't.
Posted by SDTiger15
lost in Cali
Member since Jan 2005
11621 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:08 pm to
Side with whichever one ends up with the boat
Posted by Patfic15
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2018
4192 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:09 pm to
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This post was edited on 12/23/21 at 11:31 pm
Posted by Jcorye1
Tom Brady = GoAT
Member since Dec 2007
76373 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:11 pm to
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Do you have to?


Yes.

quote:

Their reasoning for not wanting to be with each other isn't my business.


They can and will make it your business.
Posted by Tiger Prawn
Member since Dec 2016
25112 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:15 pm to
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Even weirder shite man. All of a sudden I was asked by her to come to her new house and help her with some plumbing issues.



She wants some dick. Probably hasn't gotten laid in a while waiting for all the divorce stuff to finalize. Just lay back and enjoy the ride baw
Posted by 9Fiddy
19th Hole
Member since Jan 2007
66430 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:19 pm to
I'm lucky in that our best friends are getting divorced and we don't have to pick sides. It's shocking, but it's really an amicable split. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, but in the last year, it hasn't.
Posted by 9Fiddy
19th Hole
Member since Jan 2007
66430 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:20 pm to
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in short - don't assume you understand what's going on in someone else's relationship because you don't.



This X 1,000%
Posted by LATECHgradLSUfan
LA
Member since Sep 2007
3269 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:26 pm to
This shite sucks! no winners only losers...

then you do pick sides and the other one gets pissy when you hang out in a group with the other one.

bullshite too much drama so the divorced couple loses all their friends because no one wants any of that bs.
This post was edited on 10/14/19 at 3:27 pm
Posted by Harry Morgan
Member since Sep 2019
10340 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:38 pm to
Shirts v Skins
Posted by dupergreenie
Member since May 2014
9318 posts
Posted on 10/14/19 at 3:45 pm to
After my divorce I told mutual friends that they didn't need to pick sides and if they would rather just be her friend or my friend i would not hold it against them.

I would strongly suggest that you not go do the plumbing work at the ladies house. That has bad written all over it.
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