From my experience, it seems like it’s all or nothing with these people. I think maintaining a friendship would be a tightrope act; she’d constantly try and pull you in closer so she could push you away when she felt like it.
It comes down to whether you’re looking for an emotionally stable dependable woman in your life, or if you want an exciting but dangerous fling with an unreliable emotionally damaged individual.
It seems like you're right. When we went through the breakup she'd tell me she wanted to be friends, then get annoyed if she thought I was talking to any other women. We'd talk about staying friends at work then she'd start phoning me during the night and asking to come round to mine even though she had a new boyfriend.
There are a lot of things about her I do like... .but I'm already starting to notice the things about her that annoyed me when we were together. She rang me 7 times last night and spent hours on the phone... and I don't even really know what we spoke about.
And considering how bad our break up was, I'm already feeling a little strange about how everything that happened seems to have been completely forgotten about and it's almost like we never broke up.
Personally, I like the flirting and I'm not going to deny that I like the attention from her. But I don't want everything that comes with it. I'd much rather we went back to just speaking as friends and keeping our distance from each other. But at this stage I don't think that's possible... .or that it ever really could be.