YOU SAY
In the case of your reader whose lifelong friend has formed a relationship with his ex-girlfriend, their friendship can never be the same in my opinion (Dear Coleen, Jan 9.) There are certain lines in life you do not cross and, even if she is the most attractive woman in the world to him, he should not have gone there.
Many years of friendship have now been ruined by a thoughtless act.
I know you can’t help who you fall in love with, but the unwritten rule has been broken – nothing should come between friendship. Garry Larkin Westerham, Kent