Can you really be friends with your ex?

It sounds perfectly reasonable in theory — you shared a life; you presumably liked each other once. Surely something can survive the ending?

In this episode, Beverley gets honest about her own attempt to do exactly that. Years of post-divorce hostility — covert snidey comments, surveillance through the children, all of it — followed by a genuine effort to draw a line and start again. She meant it. She turned up. And she found out that friendship requires both people to be in the same place. And they weren't.

This episode explores the question nobody asks often enough — not just can you be friends with your ex, but how do you know when you've actually let go? And what do you do when you have, but they haven't?

There's no tidy resolution here. Just an ho ...