After two-and-a-half years, my fiancé and I decided to separate about a month ago. After I proposed to him around Christmas, he decided that he wasn’t ready to get married again, yet. There were other problems that lead to that decision—mainly communication issues.
I moved out of his house in late February. Since then we have spoken on the phone for great heaps of time, and we’ve even seen each other a few times. Both of us want to fix the mistakes that we made in the hopes that one day we can get back together.
But in the “between” time, we don’t know how to refer to the other. I mean, technically right now we are not dating, definitely not engaged, just friends with an enormous background together.
Have you ever been here before? What have you called your ex, when you don’t want to call them the “ex”?
