I have one. Many of us have them. Some people have quite a few.
Do you stay in touch? Even develop a friendship?
I think people who have kids together are more likely to stay in touch.
For me, I have said this before, it is kind of like getting a second mother, or a replacement mother.
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She is sexually off limits.
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There is a tremendous depth of share living, shared understand, and shared experience.
Why is she sexually off limits? Well for me, the very idea of sex with her is revolting. I think what it really is is simply that she crossed so many basic lines is that she is just dangerous, lethal.
So like a mother, separating from her is a matter of living versus dying.
This is what my wife had done, she was no longer willing to be Wife, Lover, SO. She came to be unwilling to follow my lead, and turned instead into someone who thought she should try to help me, for my own good. Well that is the point a which a mother becomes destructive.
For a wife, it is already long long gone if it gets to that point.
What is your experience with an ex?
SJG

It's good that your ex is still willing to visit you in the facility so often
My ex and myself only text a few times a year
WCG