Does anyone have much experience in being friends first before starting a relationship? To what extent do you think you can gauge the likely success of a relationship by how well the friendship works/how much you enjoy spending time together?
i personally think just cause the 2 people like being together, doesnt always mean they need to start, or jump into a relationship. Case in point, there are alot of people i enjoy being around more then anything in the world, but i wouldnt want to be in a relationship/boyfriend/girlfriend With them. Take it one day at a time, and if it turn's into something more then so be it, but just enjoy being friend's for now, cause sometime's once you become gf/bf , and you brake up, you might never go back to being frinds again, and that is somthing you have to be willing to deal with if that time comes. I have dated people in the past, that i just happen to still be friends with, but the Numbers well out equal the number in total. I would say out of 10 people i dated, i only still talk to/ or are friends with 3 of them. one of those people is still a very good friend of mine, but we had to work on it after we broke up, it wasnt just as easy as being "friends" again. We didnt talk for 2 years before we starting talking again, and then became very good / best friends. so just think long and hard before you go further, and if anything you can be friends for awhile and see where it goes from there.. But take your time, and enjoy each other in the moment. GOOD LUCK.
well I was talking to my girlfriend in a sorta interstage for three months before asking her out that worked fine for us I don't think the two are really all that different, and all barriers blocking a move from one to another are made up in our minds
I agree with the remark about friendship not being that different to a relationship. I had a friendship with a woman that should have been a relationship but wasn't.
