Life is really not like the movies. If peoples life was like the movies then every persons love life would be pretty healthy. There would be no unhappy endings. Lets face, life is not like the movies. If theres anything in life that resembles movies its the nightmarish things that happen in the middle of movies. I say this because of some endings in movies where relationships end and one party asks if they could still be friends. In the movie world it can still work out, in the real world it just might be a dream.
When your ex asks if you too can still be friends after the relationship, it would make you think a lot. Do you think that this is really possible? It might make you sit back a moment and think very well. But why in the world or how your friendship can last when everything you had in your relationship just broke down. So when an ex ask that question it might only be polite to say sure why not. But deep inside both of you know that it might be hard to be good friends again. That expression is just used as a consolation prize for the dumping you had.
People who ask and say yes to these things do not really mean what they are saying. How can both of you...