![]() ![]() “So have you actually slept with an ex?” I asked. “It’s better to take the risk of it being great.” “It’s such a shame not to do something simply because you think it ‘won’t be good for you,’” he urged. He’s also my greatest enabler-it’s with him that I smoke, have the third martini, and send that 2 a.m. Malcolm is a problematically charming literary editor in his 50s. “Of course you should,” declared my friend Malcolm. Isn’t that what people do? So I find myself back at the same question: Should you sleep with your ex? ![]() I wished I’d found a better way to move on, like hot yoga, or joining a cult, or becoming more Instagram famous than him. is sleeping with an ex always such a bad idea?Īnd yet, there was a still part of me that hated that I had to fuck him to get there. ![]() And yet, watching sparks fly between Carrie and Aidan two decades post-breakup, I couldn’t help but wonder. In this way, I’m a Miranda: I can’t help eating the cake out of the garbage. I prefer to drag breakups out for weeks, months, years if I have to-to pick the scab over and over until it leaves a scar. Personally, I’ve rarely had the willpower to follow this guideline. Popular theory has it that banging your ex opens up old wounds and cock-blocks you from moving on. If it’s bad you just had sex with an ex.” As Samantha put it in Season 4 of SATC: “Sex with an ex can be depressing. My hunch is that she wouldn’t approve of Carrie double-dipping. Watching the show, I often find myself wondering what Samantha Jones, whose absence is palpable, would think about what her flailing friends are up to. This week’s episode of And Just Like That-the Sex and the City reboot that has trauma-bonded us all-saw the romantic return of Carrie’s ex, Aidan Shaw. ![]()
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