This question stems from two of my x-boyfriends contacting me this past week. A few days ago my first real boyfriend from Junior year of high school sent me a message on facebook asking how I was doing and what was going on and all that. It’s the first time I have talked to him since we broke up probably. Mostly because his girlfriend then (and now wife) hated me with a passion and according to him she still does, and that’s why I can’t be his friend on Facebook.

But I wished him the best and hoped everything was going well for him. And I really do, there’s no jealousy or anything there, of course it’s been 6 years since we went out, but I still care about him as a person.
Yesterday the boyfriend I had my senior year IM’ed me. He’s living in Florida now, just being single and having the time of his life. So we talked for a little while about all the crazy shit we did in high school. I also wished him the best, it was nice talking to him.
I don’t know if I really have a point, but I believe that people that you are in serious relationships with in the past, present or future always change you in some little way and ultimately everything that happens to you, be it good or bad makes you into the person that you are today.
Even relationships that have ended bad in the past, I can always look back in a couple of years and forgive the person and genuinely care how they are doing and hope they are happy.