Women...

[Mike]

Those aren't exactly "friends" though, in the mutual sense of the word. They're, as you said, people you're using for your own gain (which I am all for... I wish more people would look out for their own interests)... And they're being friends with you in hopes of some relationship again.

There will never be a relationship and the friendship will turn sour from one of you. That's why I told what's his name, or whoever, to not try to be friends with their exes... because it's not a real friendship. I have had some amazing friendships with girls that I dated for a week or two, maybe close to a month, but those weren't really relationships... The real friendships with real former-relationships are incredible rare. Not that they don't ever happen, but usually, it's one person using another, and then, that other person, only allowing themselves to get used to get back into the relationship... once one person stops using or stops getting used, it's over.
Mike