Some people want to keep in touch with their exes for a variety of reasons. Very few of them are actually good reasons.
Having been a very observant human for most of my life, allow me to list a few disgusting reasons I've noticed why people stay in touch with exes:
1.) They are NOT over them. 2.) They are over them, but also want to keep tabs on them to make sure they aren't as happy with their new person as they were with you. Or gauge the attractiveness of their next lover and how they stack up to you. Purely narcissistic reasons. (I've noticed that if a guy goes out with a girl who is significantly less attractive than his ex....this confuses the ever-living shit out of her....and she paradoxically want to get back with him.) 3.) Flirting and being silly apparently "doesn't count" with an ex. "We're just friends! It means nothing! We ended on good terms. We have a lot of history and we can't just shut each other out completely!" 4.) Plan B. Keep your ex on the backburner in case your current relationship doesn't work out. Sex with an ex is easy, convenient, and sometimes you are subconsciously angry at them for the relationship not working out, so now you can have angry hate sex....which is some of the best sex. 5.) Sometimes you just want to keep them in your life to remind them what they are missing out on.
Very rarely is it because you actually care about them as a person. It's almost always for selfish reasons.
6.) They have children together. That's actually a really big one you left out.
I think he only wanted to list the bad reasons... ---
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