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I always remain friends with x's if the breakup wasn't that bad. I'm very odd I know, but I know how to separate friends from lovers and I just don't feel the need to "punish" someone by banishing them from my life just because the relationship didn't work out.
If there was some sort of a blowout and/or hurt feelings and/or one partner still longing for the other, then it is probably not possible or prudent to remain friends.
But if you just came to the mutual decision that you weren't well suited to being a couple, then there is no reason to punitively cut the other person out of your life. You can be great friends without being great partners.
Two of my closest female friends are people my fiance dated before we were together. Neither situation was serious enough to requite a "breakup" or for them to be considered his "exes." But I am certainly glad he stayed on good terms with them, or else I never would have known two very wonderful people!
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