What I mean is, did you ever go from platonic friendship to falling in love with your best friend (not dating someone and then they become your best friend)? How did it go? Did you stay together/get married? If you broke up, were you able to resume your friendship?
I’ve been feeling myself developing feelings for my best friend. At first I hoped it would go away because I was scared to ruin our friendship. I absolutely loved our platonic friendship and loved that I had someone I could have fun with and be vulnerable with who wasn’t a partner. But over the last weeks my feelings have grown and I’ve realized how much I adore them. I now see them as more than a friend. I’m scared to do anything about it though because our friendship is so important to me and I don’t want to put it at risk.
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Yes and I married her.
All my significant others had been my best friends first. I’ve always needed friends in my life more than I needed to be married, because my parents and extended family were kind of a mess. Most of my exes remained friends with me after we broke up. I eventually married a best friend. We’ve been together since 1993.
We tried, after both of us caught feelings, and had the beginning phase of a teen relationship. We realized we were better as friends – we both had enough baggage in a significant other context that it wasn’t much fun, lol. I dated his brother afterward, despite his warning against it. He was right, that was a bad idea!
We got married and were together for 13 years
Happily married. We were friends for a few years, and then dated for seven.
Dated my best friend in high school. It was great but we broke up to save us from long distance.
Took some space but after about a year started being friends again. A lifetime of holidays, marriages, divorces, and funerals and we are still best friends.
Yeah still together, married her as well
I tried it, but the timing was all wrong since we were both headed off to college in different states. Our friendship didn’t survive the distance or the hurt feelings.
A different friend caught feelings for me a decade later. Once I knew, our friendship ended. I couldn’t trust him anymore because it felt like he violated the sibling bond that we always had.
Sure did, fifteen years and we are great couple together. Friendship first is a GREAT basis for a good relationship that really makes life wonderful.
Besties for 2 years. Married for 42 years so far – and still going strong. I’m very glad. Both kids brought up in a household built on trust, harmony and respect.
Been together for 17 years now!
Mine blew up but I think it’s the best way to start a relationship
It ended in bitter divorce. Not only did I lose a spouse but I lost my best friend.
I dated my best female friend. It was really weird for me. She had feelings for me. We only went on that 1 date and I didn’t handle ending it very well. We weren’t close friends after that. I’ve felt bad about it after all these years. To add insult to injury, I then started to date one of her besties. We’ve been married 44 years.
I married him.
It ended up that my best friend from high school and I were the co-editors of our Yearbook. They always picked one boy and one girl, and we’d been friends for a while but got to be besties working late nights together and driving her home. Nothing romantic but we shared everything. She went to the Prom with one of my good friends. We went to college in different states but wrote letters to one another almost constantly. After both dropping out we ended up in the same city the summer between junior and senior year and started hanging out together like 4 years had never passed. Gradually we realized we had developed deeper feelings and decided to chance our long friendship on the possibility of romance. We moved in together at the start of our senior year and married within the year. Our marriage lasted 34 years, until she died of cancer.