How does the end of one relationship affect not only the next one, but your future sense of self? Here women share their break up stories and what came next

Real life breakup story: friends with benefits complications

Our expectations stopped matching the reality of our time together and so there were a few months of awkward friction that we didn’t address until too late

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Things got knotty when the boundaries of the relationship were different for each of us. 

Last text from my ex: “It was a friends with benefits situation that I didn’t want to evolve”