grimsprice said:
Learn to control your dicks gentlemen, and you'll learn to control your dick-headedness.
Same thing could be said about a supposed "friend" who has to date his friends ex.
I mean let's say that you have a girlfriend who really crush your heart by doing some seriously nasty ***** move against you (like cheating or betraying you in any sort of way), and basically leaves you devastated. Along comes your best friend, he's being supportive and can really see the number that ***** did on you, and he says that he understands why you're pissed off at her and that he would react the same way if a girl did whatever she had done to you to him.
Eventuelly you might get over the incident (meaning you get back to functioning normally), but still you foster some resentment towards that girl in question (and for good reason, I mean who the hell is suddenly going to become "fine" after having been betrayed, regardless of how much time might have passed? Betrayal is betrayal after all).
How would you feel if your best friend decides to date that girl then? How would you feel when it's blatantly obvious that she's mainly hanging around with him to spite you?
Wouldn't you seriously doubt the loyalty of your so called "best friend" whose seen what hell you went through after what she did to you and now has decided to become all buddy-buddy with her? The same guy who supposedly would become equally devastated and pissed off if a girl betrayed him the same way she had betrayed you?
Seriously, there's more than three billion women on earth, would it be too much to ask from a so called friend to show some spine and loyalty and NOT actively pursuing a relationship with a woman who basically stabbed you in the back sometime before?
The way I see it, the bro-code in these types of situations isn't about controlling who your ex is dating, but rather maintain a sense of loyalty between male friends. You don't date or hang with people who've treated your best friends like shit, regardless of how much you might want to tap that persons ass.
Friends don't do that to friends, period...