This story is from August 8, 2009

Why you shouldn't dish out the dope on your ex?

Ben Affleck and Katie Jordan Price attracted millions of readers with their steamy relationship confessions with their exes. But where should you draw the line? We explore.
Why you shouldn't dish out the dope on your ex?
Ben Affleck and Katie Jordan Price attracted millions of readers with their steamy relationship confessions with their exes. But where do you draw the line? Is telling too much risky business? We explore
Over the past week, top international players have left no stone unturned to share the dope on their sex romps and past relationship miseries. Ben Affleck was heard crying hoarse over his link up with J.Lo that left his career high and dry and left him "suffocated, miserable and gross." Also, we had Ashton Kutcher posting his wife Demi Moore's booty and putting it up on Twitter, much to the displeasure of his colleague Brad Pitt who sternly reprimanded him saying, "Don't take a picture of your wife's butt.
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That's silly. Take pictures of other people's wives' butts."
Katie Jordan Price split the beans on national television about the stresses that led to her break up with Peter Andre. She even aired dirty laundry like how she suffered miscarriage just weeks before the couple called it quits. We can't help wonder if celebs should reveal their deepest secrets once things go awry. Was Price wrong to share to the world such personal information about her life with Andre? Was Affleck right to talk ill about his link up with Lopez, especially as the relationship has now broken up.
"It's okay to give a heart felt interview about your relationship while still in it, but to talk about your sex life and your emotional upheavals is in poor taste. Whether you are a commoner or a celeb - respect your ex's privacy," says 34-year-old banker Kunal Goswami.
"I broke off with my fiance two years ago, but I was shocked to see he had given details of our bedroom romps on twitter as part of a public chat forum, I felt so cheated. Did he need to do all this for his five minutes of fame," claims 23-year-old writer Seema Gogoi.
Here's why spilling the dirt on your ex is risky business:
1. You may feel that revealing your personal secrets makes you appear experienced and witty, but mostly, it makes you appear as an insensitive and crude person lacking the finer emotions of life.

2. Well you've heard it before, what goes around comes around. So if you are getting down and dirty, be prepared to open yourself up to criticism about your personal shortcomings. Also never talk at random to strangers about your ex's.
3. Talking about your intimate details like your lover's orgasm or your girlfriend's bra size is bound to turn into a case of Chinese whispers where you maybe relating just a fact, but by the time the word spills, it's nothing short of character assasination.
4. Dishing on exes is bad for your dating scene. It just shows you're still moping about your ex and that you are still hung up on what was bad between you both.
5. Sometimes it's easiest to retaliate when an ex is badmouthing you or sharing information you thought was only reserved for the two of you. Control yourself and respect your ex and yourself.
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