If your parents are divorced, are they still good friends?

Yeah, when they meet they politely say hello to each other.

Then when they part, my Mum 'tuts' and shakes her head and thinks 'I'm glad I got out of that'.

My Dad, kind of smiles sheepishly and wonders where it all went wrong.

It's just too complicated to say. I'll try to explain... My parents separated when I was in 4th grade, about 1978 I think. They never actually got a divorce. My mom kicked my dad out of the house. My dad can be pretty annoying, so this is understandable. I'm sure by now, my dad even realizes he doesn't like my mom that much anyway. But, he's always taken care of her and she never really stopped him from doing that. He still pays the utility bills on the house I grew up in (where my mom lives). They are clearly in contact on a regular basis. They actually drove up to my place to visit, together recently. They hadn't done anything like that in 20+ years as far as I know. So, maybe they are mellowing in their dislike for each other. But, friends? That's just to simplistic a term.

Yes, they're still friends....and my Dad's wife and my Mom get along really well, too.

Wow..that sounds like a story line for a movie. Have they ever dated other people in their time of seperation, or are they currently, or..?

My parents are still together, they have been married 39 years

My parents aren't divorced. They were married until my mother passed away in 2002.

My parents will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary in 3 years. They still behave like a couple of horny teenagers!

No, not at all.

I think there may have been some very light dating in the 80s that didn't amount to anything. But, nothing for a long while other than that as far as I know. They've been separated longer than they were married at this point.

My parents are still married.

My biological parents were divorced, but they are also both deceased.

No. They're getting better at being around each other, but they're a long way from being friends. They don't squabble; they mostly just don't talk much. I'm not sure my mother's really interested in being friends with my father, and I think my father is still too hurt, although I think he'd like to be friends if she would actually reciprocate. They only split up about four years ago, so it's still fairly new, considering that they were together for over 30 years.

My parents were never divorced. My mother is a widow as my father died when I was a young child.

They're polite to eachother, but I wouldn't say friends. My mum's family, especially my grandma and uncles still think my dad's great - my gran invited him to come to her 60th birthday party a few years ago which was nice.

My parents never divorced/now deceased

My parents were married over 50 years before health issues separated them. My father had a hip replacement, medicare only allowed 3 days in the hospital after the surgery, so we had to find a rehabilitation facility (rest home). I wanted to care for him at home, but they wouldn't let me because it would have been too much. Healing did not go well at all, and he died months later. Mother's Alzheimer's was progressing, but she still was able to deal with Papa's death ok.

I don't remember any divorces in our close family of friends, either, though my cousin and his wife split up after their 2 girls were married.

I would say that well over half, maybe more, of my friends have divorced parents and messed up childhoods. I'm really lucky with my family background.

My parents been divorced since I was 2, and they are still very good friends. My dad will help around the house if needed. For an example, I purchased a new door knob for the screen door, (It was the type that has a key to lock/unlock it) and my dad came over to put it on for me and my mother. Once in a great while they will hug and kiss each other, and my dad will say that my mother is still number 1 in his book.

Also if there is a big problem that my mother has, my father is right there to help.

I was curious. Very interesting, to say the least!

They're not legally divorced yet, but they might as well be.

They don't talk to each other. They're not even live on the same continents. They would kill each other if they could.

My mother has passed away, but my son's mother's father (is that right?) was married to this woman who was still great friends and would often come around for dinner and the three of them were like good buddies......... i thought it quite weird

did not explain that right.sigh. she was great friends with her Ex and like I said they would get together, socialise etc ..........weird

God no, my parents can barely be civil to each other.
They made the effort for my 21st birthday but it just all felt so fake and contrived.

They get along fairly well. They don't see much of each other now that I live in my own place, but I never felt too much weirdness. What I didn't like was that during my later teenage years, my mom thought she could say what she wanted to me about my dad when he and I were having troubles. Not cool.

I grew up in the days when divorce was mostly unheard of. My parents are dead.

Dead as doornails.

Definitely not. My mom can tolerate my dad (like at my brother's wedding as well as my wedding), but they are not friends. My mother's partner greatly dislikes my father. Not exactly sure why...my dad is really lame but that's not enough reason for that much feeling.

My parents are still married.

Um, they get along OK now (better than they did when they were married really), but friends would be too strong a word.

My parents are still married.

My parents are contentedly married.

They can't stand each other.

no, they always argue face to face and on the phone!!!!!

My parents divorced when I was 1 yr. old, My dad raised me.
I never met my mother until I was 20 yrs old.
I'm 43 now...and I have a great relationship with both of my parents, altho they do not speak to eachother....(my dad lives in FL. where I was raised, My mom lives in New Orleans,LA. where I was born).

What about an option for my parents are both dead or I don't have parents. Given that this is survey central, I would expect those as options.

My parents are still married, but I must wonder if they would consider themselves friends

Deceased, should have gotten a divorce.

My parents haven't spoken to each other in decades. I haven't seen my mom since 1986.

, How disrespectful!

My mothers first husband died on Christmas Day. He was hit by a speeding vehicle. Weeks later my mother met her next husband...who had been admiring her from afar...and who had a huge dent mark on his vehicle. Come to find out he was involved in a hit & run on Christmas Day. Everything went to court but nothing could be substantiated. We all spent years teasing him about murdering our father. Silly children. We all know he did it...but still giggle over it. Initially my mother hated him (in court) but grew to love him, and..more or less...forgave him.

My parents wont even talk to each other. The letters that do go back and forth between them when something does need fixed are usually not of a happy tone.

I put other because they are divorced. Sometimes they fight--sometimes they don't. UH ER they live ACROSS the street from each other--go figure.

My mother died and my father re-married a witch.

they just have other 'lovers'

I wish my dad would divorce my lunatic dog of a mother

good friends.. haha you make me laugh

My parents are dead.

My parents aren't divorced. My father was a widower until he passed away. My mother passed away when I was a baby.

They hardly say 2 words since their divorce 30 yrs ago.

HA!