Would you, if ever?

[love2sing]

Interesting question on WBAB yesterday.

If your friend broke up with his/her spouse, what is the threshold of time, if ever, that you would think it appropriate to date your friend's spouse?

Some people called in with some very interesting responses:

I've know people who divorced their spouse and married his brother. Now that's not even a friend, that's a relative. :eek:

What's your opinion?

[SHOELUVRSIS]

depends on what kind of "friend",
if its really a friend ? i shudder at the thought - NEVER!
but if your ok w/ dating your friends ex husband i see no length
of time thats going to make a difference, so immediately would be fine.
your character's flawed to begin with - so fudge it!

[shoeluvr]

yes, i would date whoever I wanted to. if she broke up/divorced him, its fair game. and vise versa, hey it happens.

[chinarain62]

I personally couldn't do that to a friend.

The only exception I would consider would be if the friend who divorced their spouse moved out of state in which case the friendship would probably dwindle into nothing (sadly) and in then it wouldn't be as bad.

[NY DREAMER]

Never! It would NOT be worth the hassle. I would not cross that line, friends are hard to come by men eh... :D

[shoeluvr]

yeah but what if he was a real cutie, with a good job, a great personality and you guys had fun together and you really fell for him? i think it could happen. but i guess it also depends on who left who. if she threw him away, hey, too bad , so sad. i guess if was a bad break up, it would get sticky. but i think about my ex husband. he picked up one of my co workers in a bar one night, i could care less, shes a nice girl and as long as she would be good to my kids, i didnt mind.

[love2sing]

I didn't answer this when I put it up this morning. I have been asked out by friends of ex-boyfriends and I haven't dated a one of them. I just couldn't picture it working, no matter how much I might be attracted to them. I would feel I would be hurting the ex by going out with his friend and that would be no matter how our relationship ended. If a friend of mine dated an ex of mine that I broke up with, it wouldn't bother me. If a friend dated someone that dumped me and my friend knew how broken up I was about it and dated my ex anyway, I would then have an ex-boyfriend and an ex-friend. I wouldn't do that to a friend of mine, I think it would be disrespectful.

[78 zebra man]

I didn't answer this when I put it up this morning. I have been asked out by friends of ex-boyfriends and I haven't dated a one of them. I just couldn't picture it working, no matter how much I might be attracted to them. I would feel I would be hurting the ex by going out with his friend and that would be no matter how our relationship ended. If a friend of mine dated an ex of mine that I broke up with, it wouldn't bother me. If a friend dated someone that dumped me and my friend knew how broken up I was about it and dated my ex anyway, I would then have an ex-boyfriend and an ex-friend. I wouldn't do that to a friend of mine, I think it would be disrespectful.


DAMN........that was deep!!!!!!!!!! :p

[Doc]

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[love2sing]

DAMN........that was deep!!!!!!!!!! :p
Sorry, I get that from hangin' around Doorman too much.