<human>: To put it as short as possible... we were going out for around 8 months and I loved her to bits. For the last month she had been seeing another guy who I was having panic attacks about who she then told me a week after the breakup that she liked. She also stopped loving me at around month 7 but continued to have sex with me even though she knew I considered it more than just sex.

I know she doesn't love me and I know we're never getting back together because of this. I still love her... but we had such an awesome time together and I valued her as basically my best friend... and I still want to be friends with her. 

The thing I'm worried about is if I became friends with her again and she gets with another guy (which is obviously going to happen one day) while I still have feelings for her its going to kill me. I tend to delete all contact with ex's as then I can't get hurt again and my feelings for them slowly disappear due to the fact I am no longer in contact with them... but I don't want to stop contact with her, I miss her, but I'm scared that this will in turn make me keep a hold of these feelings for her and eventually get hurt again when she moves on to a different guy.

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<bot>: Ex treated me like shit, went off with another guy, I miss her still and want to be friends but scared that becoming friends will make my feelings for her last longer and eventually get me hurt again when she finds another guy.