<human>: I will try to keep this short and sweet.

We were together for ~3 years. I guess I ended it, but we were not really on bad terms (no major blow-out, no infidelity, etc).

Over the years I maintained my own friendships with other people, but she lost touch with most of her previous friends (not that unusual in your 20s) so unfortunately she really only has me as a close friend now.

Ideally I would like to keep her as a friend since we still have a lot of history together and she could use the support. I don't want her to feel abandoned.

Where this becomes very difficult, is that she still has strong feelings for me. This obviously gets in the way of us trying to be "just friends". **I'm not sure if I am helping her or hurting her by trying to remain her friend.** It seems like a lose-lose scenario where I either abandon her and make her miserable, or I try to be her friend which is painful for her and also makes her miserable.

I have lost female friends in the past because of women having feelings for me and not being able to properly maintain a strictly "just friends" relationship. I don't know if there is a solution, or if the idea of trying to remain friends is pointless and impossible.

Thoughts?

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<bot>: Ex-GF is still in love with me... is it possible to go from being romantically involved, to being just friends?