I tried to stay friends with my ex, I said that I just wanted to be friends. I texted her a week after we broke up and we started texting all the time and meeting for drinks.
The problem was she always wanted to stay over, which I could understand as she is disabled and it is expensive to get a taxi to town and back, but she started wanting to hold hands and hug.
The last time we saw each other she was really drunk and kept saying 'I love you, do you love me?', she kept wanting to go to my house, she ended up falling out of her wheelchair and I had to take her to hospital.
About 2 weeks later she asked why I was avoiding seeing her, I said it was because she was so serious last time she went out. She said I sent out mixed messages (one time when she stopped over I started touching her) and if we stopped friends she would always think we would get back together.
I feel guilty as when it started out I thought it was just having fun, I didn't think she thought it was so serious, I think it's because she is disabled and her dad died 5 years ago.