One of my favorite bands is a British girl group called Little Mix. They recently released their newest album entitled "Glory Days," and the first single was a song called "Shout Out to My Ex," a song all about dissing their exes.

So, here is my Shout Out to My Ex… sort of.

See, I’m not going to do that to them. I'm not going to badmouth any of the people I’ve been in a relationship with, mostly because I’m good friends with all of them, but that's also really childish. So instead of publicly attacking them, I’ve decided to discuss exes in another way.

In our society, a place where relationships and love are pushed so much that it's expected of people to have them, many people have exes. A lot of people even have bad exes, from relationships that ended badly. And sadly, a lot of people with exes tend to badmouth those exes all over social media, almost exactly like "Shout Out to My Ex."

Yes, I’ll admit I love the song, and yes, I’ll admit that I have talked bad about my exes a few times, but it's so horrible. Most of the time people don't even think about the fact that they could still be friends with their exes. I mean, there is that super cliche line of “we could still be friends.” Just because your romance with a person ends doesn't mean that your relationship has to.

Friendship can sometimes be better anyways. One of my relationships didn't work out, but now they're one of my best friends. We fit so much better as friends anyway.

One of the things I’ve always said is that if you're hostile and have ill-feelings for your exes, it means you didn't have that good of a relationship. If the love and respect you once had for them doesn't transfer with you out of the relationship, it wasn't that good in the first place. Just because you broke up doesn't give you the right to be mean, even if they hurt you. People make mistakes and sometimes do things they don't mean. There may be no excusing what someone does (especially if your partner was abusive in any way, whether it was physical, emotional, mental, or sexual. If they were, never forgive them) but that doesn't mean you have to hurt them back. An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind.

Keep the respect going. God only knows that this world could benefit from it.