friendship

CarKeys

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Is it worth a friendship for a chance at a relationship? What are your thoughts?
 
That depends on the situation. I have friends I have slept with and our relationship continued on the same as it was before, just with more closeness and caring about each other. I have had friends I slept with that when it did not work out, we drifted away from each other.

It is hard to tell when it is ok to cross that line in a friendship. Sometimes it takes a long while for it to happen. One guy it took 5 years of mutual flirting and innunendo before it happened.

Be careful what ever you do.
 
Yup! Go for it. She could be "the one" sitting right under your nose the whole time. :)
 
Cheyenne said:
Yup! Go for it. She could be "the one" sitting right under your nose the whole time. :)

Yeah. That may be true but if things don't work out then you'd lost a good friend. And real friends nowadays are far and few between.
 
Many people, and I will use here for an example, lose perspective of what really matters in a relationship when sex or a sexual attraction becomes involved.

I have been fortunate enough to experience and maintain close relationships with men that were able to weather through the turbulent times when sex/sexual attraction was prevalent/at it's peak.

You as an individual, must set parameters for yourself...not so that you don't break them, but so that if the occasion should arise where you must take a step back and re-evaluate the relationship, you can safely do so without malice and move back into a friendship without the fear of losing the relationship entirely.
 
Good question and I've pondered this one myself.

When I was in high school, my best friend was a guy. He was always horny, but never did he ever try anything with me, (I was taken back then also) We used to lay in bed together watching TV, go to the movies and out for a burger.

After graduating from high school, I was divorced, he wasn't married yet, and I remember laying there with him one night while watching a movie, and he turned to me and asked why we'd never made love. The only reply I could think of was "It would ruin a damn good friendship".

Well, fastforward to 2001. He lives 5 hours from where I do but we are still best friends, 25 years later, but this night was a bit different. We went out like we sometimes do, he took me out to some night spots he likes to frequent. I knew something was going to happen that night and I let it.

I guess to make this long drivel into a short story...It didn't ruin our friendship. We are still close friends. The one big thing for us was communication though. Talk about it afterwards, make sure there are no hurt feelings if nothing works out between you two. We found out that night that while we might love each other, it's not the kind of love that is required between two romatic people.

Did I answer this question right?
 
I have many friends I want to get in a relationship with, but, my low self-esteem,(and, my lack of being able to fuck,?)ALWAYS hold me back. I HATE it, but, as many times as I hear, "Love is love," or,"if you still have a tongue, and, fingers, then you're still "able," or, whatever, I just can't get past the size of my genitals.
 
CarKeys said:


Yeah. That may be true but if things don't work out then you'd lost a good friend. And real friends nowadays are far and few between.

Where is it written that the end result has to be a lost friend if things don't work out as a couple?
 
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