My wife and I still stay in touch w/ a couple of our EXs & even spent time with

[theking]

...them occasionally so I like this answer and agree with it  :

My boyfriend and I have dated for seven months. We have a good relationship in terms of compatibility. We are both Christian and educated, and we have good professions. We are fun-loving and both of us like to invest and travel. He enjoys my company and says I am the girl with the best qualities he’s ever dated.

But I do have one issue: He stays in close contact with his former on-and-off girlfriend of 10 years and other women he dated. When I asked him about it, he said he cares about other people and likes to keep in touch with them.

An example: Last year when he was single, he wanted to take his long-term ex-girlfriend out for a day trip, dinner and a musical so she could get away from her apartment. Her daughter and grandkids, who were living with her, made her life very tough. My boyfriend and this ex also text each other often to keep up with each other’s family and life.

I feel uneasy about this. Wouldn’t most women? To me, if you don’t think a relationship is working, you should stop seeing each other so you don’t cause more confusion or stir up more emotion. How should I deal with this? I like this guy a lot and really think we have something going. — SHARING HIM IN TEXAS

DEAR SHARING HIM: When people end long-term relationships, they don’t all do it in the same way. Some of them have a dramatic blowup and never speak to the person again. Others remain friends for many years.

If your boyfriend’s former flame has an adult daughter and grandkids, none of you are inexperienced kids yourselves. If you really want a future with him, you may have to accept that he won’t be happy if you try to curtail his social contacts. If you can’t summon up enough self-confidence to manage that, perhaps you should find someone else.

[Believe_N_Me]

It's not about self-confidence. It's just inappropriate and disrespectful.

People with an attachment disorder accept unhealthy arrangements because they haven't healed from their childhood traumas. They don't have boundaries and even if they did, they don't often know how to enforce them.

[theking]

It's just inappropriate and disrespectful.

...unhealthy arrangements ...

What's "inappropriate, disrespectful and unhealthy" is having a mind that is so narrow and ignorant to lump all together...lik e an idiot.

When FACTS states otherwise i.e., there are good and bad with each arrangements.. .

The main contributing factor to determine if it'll be a successful arrangement or fail is what the participants make of it, not the type arrangement... FACT!!!