‘We slept with three of the same women’: 12 people on what it’s really like dating a friend’s ex

Is it OK to get with a friend’s ex? Photograph: Westend61/Getty Images

Life is full of big, messy questions. How should we spend our finite time on Earth? What is the nature of good and evil? And, thorniest of all: is it OK to date a friend’s ex?

This year, reality TV fans debated this question with vim and verbosity when it was revealed that Bravo reality stars Amanda Batula and West Wilson had started kissing (!) and dating (!!) even though West had broken the heart of Amanda’s best friend, Ciara Miller.