It's strange to have ex-boyfriends on one's social networking page. I suppose I'm one of the strange ones. Of the few serious relationships I've been in (including my current as a wife), only one boyfriend isn't on my friends list. I'm not losing sleep over it, if that's what one wonders. I do see if they're on this networking site, but maybe only once a year.
The first love of my life is on my friends list. Though things were tough and quite rocky toward the end, we managed to scrape up what was once a good friendship, and reform that friendship. We're both happily married and have children close in age. His oldest daughter is less than 14 days younger than my only daughter.
He instant messaged me on this networking site to just chat. I have no problem with this. I found it odd that he IM'ed me first; he rarely does this. Either way, I was happy to chat (I was already chatting with an old friend from 12 or so years ago). We talked about life, kids, work. Out of the blue, he says to me, "And don't take this the wrong way, but your profile pic really brings out your features," or something like that. I wish I could remember the exact wording.
I bring it up because it caught me off-guard. I've never been all that great at accepting compliments. Considering our past, I just never really expected it from him. He still admits that he's an asshole. I was really mad at him back then for being an asshole, not caring about the feelings of others.
However, maturing and parenthood tends to change people; most of them, for the better. I enjoy talking to him. We've finally come back around the circle and become friends again and this makes me happy. Even if he was an asshole of a boyfriend, when we were still just friends all those years ago, he was a good one to have. And he still is.
