If anyone has any advice on staying friends with partners who you ended amicably with, it'll be much appreciated
Don't stay friends, as hard and as harsh as it is, if she moves on how are you going to feel about it, best just to both be getting on with your lives.
When my ex split up with me out of the blue (literally had come home from 4weeks offshore cut the lawn as it was a foot high she said do you want to go for a walk after dinner and half way round said she was splitting up with me) I lost the house and was basically forced to move back to my parents 300 miles away.
Even though I had been paying the mortgage on the house, her mum had given us the deposit, the lawyer said I was doing the sensible thing in not fighting for it as it would have just caused more grief and would have cost more money than I got back. I went past 6 months after we split to pick up a few things I had left and then heard from her once more to pay for my half of the lawyers fees that I had agreed to so that my name was taken off the house.
Not heard from her since, never expected to, she could be dead in a ditch or have won the euro millions, I don't care either way.
I was utterly broken when it first happened but it allowed me to rediscover the old me, reconnect with old friends that I had lost contact with, and eventually I met someone else who I married, bought a house with and have a son and dog with now, my wife is annoying as hell but they all are, nobodies perfect, but I wouldn't be without her.
At the end of the day it's up to you how you want to lead you're life, if you want to stay friends, who are we on an internet forum to tell you what to do.
