Why You Shouldn’t Take the Next Step with Your Best Friend
We have all had one time or another where we have had a crush on a friend or even a best friend. If you are caught up in the crush and are enjoying the flirting and your friend doesn’t seem to mind, then that is fine. If it is the feel of the chase you love then you might need to mature a bit more in the relationship and love department before you attempt to make a move on your closest friend. This type of situation may lead to massive disappointment for both of you and injure what you have. If you are thinking of disclosing your hearts desire to your best friend and they have never shown you any love signs then you might want to think again. If you are lucky and you know that your best friend feels the same way then this might be an option for you to try, but if there is no reciprocation, flirtation or feelings, then your heart might be in for a let down. Love is such a precious feeling and has to be treasured and respected. It is good to truly sit down and think about why you want to take things further. Ask yourself these questions. Would they be a suitable match for me? Is there a future for us? Am I attracted to my best friend sexually? What are my real reasons? Am I afraid to be alone?
Sometimes it is better to keep a best friend a friend and stay that way. When you cross the line with your best friend, your friendship will be changed forever. Even if you can put what happened or what was said behind you, one of you may end up broken hearted because these feelings brought up were not acknowledged in the end. This can lead to resentment and jealousy in the future and destroy a friendship. Because two friends hang out so much together, the one that is in love or has an attraction begins to see themselves as a couple. This can end up becoming a distorted view and can result in so many painful feelings when the feelings are not returned. Unrequited love is a hard situation to go through and can take a long time to heal from. This is why in some friendships it is best to reconsider before taking the friendship to a new level.
Many people think how wonderful it will be to begin a new love relationship with their best friend. They are around all the time, they trust you, you trust them, their cute enough, they are a good friend…..there is no reason not to! But there is something missing though and that is the level of love and passion that happens and sparks between two people when they fall in love. Make sure you really think this one over before making any sudden moves because your choice can result in three different ways. You either are best friends for life, broken hearted, or for the lucky ones; you have your soul mate. This is quite the gamble to take, so think it through before you jump the gun.
By: Natasha Jervis
Comments (28 comments)
Your words are very true… I have had situation like this about 6 months back. She was my best friend and I started to be attracted towards her. Not able to control my emotions, i proposed her and I was refused. It was painful but I was soon able to understand that she was my friend not my love. We were very close and we always had gr8 chat…. : was this the only reason that I liked to spent my time with her actually influenced me to propose her…. Frankly speaking now I realize, it was it…..
By Great Almighty’s willing we are now again very good friends. Thanks to her that she was able to understand my state…. Pls pray for our endless friendship…!!!
Mishu / August 12th, 2007, 6:29 pm / #
I don’t believe more than 20% of that entire thing. I think that if you are friends and there is a connection between you strong enough for you to have a crush on them yet still wish for their happiness [[ even if that means not being with you ]] and they feel the same way about you…then what is wrong with it?! I was best friends with a guy I’ve been admiring since 6th grade [[ now in 10th ]] and we came to find out that we had a lot in common and just really hit it off as friends. Now, we are dating and we are both happier than we have ever been. Yes, we do have alot in common and it can get at times annoying to have them know what you are thinking without verbalizing it because they know you sooo well, but in the end…it is past the point of worth it. I think that relationships that start this way will rarely ever end up in a bad way. I think most of all that if a relationship like that does end, or never even begins in some cases, that it is just because one of the two people weren’t as similar or different enough for them to gain the closeness that is required in these relationships. People just need to realize that a relationship is revolved around a PAIR of people… You were a singular possesive while you were alone…
Acid / September 27th, 2007, 6:06 am / #
well, i think is good to be chaset to yourself because it pays.
when you remeber that you are not engaged into sexual, intercourse with any body at least you will be save from Stds that is every where nowadays.
and you wondn’t be sufring from heart break, and you are keeping Jehovah’s commad when he said you should not fornicate.
Precious.
Precious / October 11th, 2007, 5:16 pm / #
Your words are absoultly true, I wish that I had come to this website sooner.
It would have helped.
Anonymous / October 18th, 2007, 2:16 pm / #
Hi!!
Wow. I have felt like an idiot because doing this was very stupid of me. I lost a boyfriend and a friend. We got into the biggest fight ever and he has not talked to me since. It really sucks because he was a really good friend and a great boyfriend and I said something to him I shouldn’t have I guess and I was wrong so we broke up. Then two days later we went back out. I really thought that it was going to work out a lot better but it didn’t. The first time we lasted for 2 months then the second only 2 weeks. I really thought he loved me but I was very young. I am a freshman in high school I learned that boys can be jerks. I hate how I was treated. I now have a 100 messages on my phone because he misses hanging out with me, I feel really bad but honestly I do not care he hurt me that’s it, you know. My mom and dad think that I shouldn’t of said yes the second time, oh well. I have learned my lesson like I said I am only 15 I do not know what love is. hahah. Thank you for that information.Byeeeee
Briauna Westphalen / December 2nd, 2007, 12:47 pm / #
I almost forgot. The other weird thing is he started showing his true colors after we started dating. And once I said no to the doing it part he got all pissed and was like if you love me you would do it with me. Right?? I was like at 15 are you insane I am not following my mom’s footsteps and having a kid at 16. So he was like then it is over and I told him I have no clue who you are anymore. What happened to the sweet person you use to be . You know. He was like that doesn’t matter you wouldn’t of got pregnant. I was like you don’t know that it takes one time to get pregnant and I am not taking that chance. I seriously do not know you anymore and it really scares me because you have never acted like this and now you are. What in the hell man.
Briauna Westphalen / December 2nd, 2007, 12:53 pm / #
Yea. That’s very true. I just turned 16 and I got the hots for a guy friend of mine. He feels the same way and we’ve even shared a couple of kisses. But we’re not in a relationship yet. I kinda feel like he’s stuck on his ex because everytime she comes around, he leaves me. But he wants to be my boyfriend. The situation is very complicated. I just hope my feelings don’t get hurt. Thanks for the advice!!!!!
Samari V / December 7th, 2007, 3:44 am / #
Take it from me, i am best friends with a girl, and i started developing feelings for her. I wanted to tell her at the beging of the year when school started. Then i found out she has a bf, [[ flaming bugs me to this day coz hes 23 n shes 19! And i dont trust him 1 bit! ]]. So i sat in heartbroken pain for months, thinking about it. And eventually i did tell her about my feelings for her. To my suprise she told me she feels the same! Wasnt i happy, but she told me we couldnt be together because of him. And yes, it would be unfair to him, and her…. But we are still best friends and we even flirt a little, sometimes i even kiss her on the cheek :-). Thing is i love her, and i want her to be happy. I dont even think about other girls seriously. Maybe one day we will be together, best friends can be in love/have feelings for eachother, and im proof of it, im happy that shes happy, and what happens will happen. And as spiteful and selfish as this sounds, i hope that stupid bf of hers realises that he is not going to get lucky with a minor! And they separate… Ah damn now im making myself upset! Oh my gosh… What if im the odd one out? I dont know what to think… I feel like crying, if anybody can help me out with some advice, i would really apriciate it. *crying boy*
Noobie / December 13th, 2007, 8:17 am / #
Sir,
I m also undrgoing from such situation. I m also feeling something about my best friend. But i m confuse whether is it real love or only attraction.
We had contacting each other since almost one year
pls suggest something.
dinesh mote / December 13th, 2007, 1:49 pm / #
my boyfriends brother had to stay at my house over the weekend and hung on me and kissed me on the cheek and told me my boyfriend was cheating on me and i dont know what to to i tried to tell my boyfriend that his brother told me he was cheating on me and he asked me why i would make up a lie like that which makes me think his brother was trying to get with me. what do i do.
Amanda / December 19th, 2007, 3:40 am / #
thanks this helped so much i had the same dilemma with a really close guy friend in the summer. i found out he felt the same way. too bad we both didnt say anything i think because we both didnt want to ruin our friendship. he was so perfect for me it was hard for me to get over it. i hope one day in the future we can become more than friends but i doubt it. but really this article helped alot.
sweetie / January 1st, 2008, 1:49 pm / #
I wish I knew the right answer. Theres articles like these that seem to be true and believable, but then theres my heart thats telling me true love between best friends is possible. My first best friend is amazing, and we fit together like PB&J but hes in a relationship now (one that I helped put together) and he seems happier than ever. At first I was so happy for him, but now the more I spend time with him I realize my true feelings and how much I want to be with him. I havnt told him anything, because I think theres no point.. but its almost better to sit and wait for him alone, than it is to move on and forget. Ive tried both and now Im in a hole all over again not knowing which way to go. We joke around how were going to get married and how were each others first best friends and such, but how can I hold any truth to it. When his g/f is out of town, we talk and hang out all the time, as if we were a couple. But once she comes back, hes an ass, who seemingly forgets I exist. I suppose I dont need this, and should just get over him. In conclusion kids, try not to fall in love with your best friend..
Red / January 8th, 2008, 3:44 pm / #
i have a crush on girl but i think it was wrong
do know WHY?
cause i already loved some one but still i love her.HER NAME
SECRET she was my best friend since we were 2nd year.i want to say to her how much i love her.but i cant do cause she so in love w/ DANIEL i want keep our friendship will last forever
what can i do?
ii have bad attitude,im deffinetly not gentleman, or a good boy IN SHORT IM A BAD BOY BUT EVERY THING WHAT IM DOING HAS reason but people never understands me IM SUCH A LOSER well this words cant change anything maybe my bestfriend wasnt FOR ME but iHOPE someday it will change
good bye nice meeting you all
Im Mr.L
shaneze A. crystal / January 9th, 2008, 9:35 pm / #
its almost 4years from now and we have a promise that someday we will meet agAin. in the place where i leave him. but the problem is
WHAT SHOULD I DO WHEN HE FIND SOMEONE OR I FIND MY SOMEONE.. ?
and one will be get hurt. he was my childhood friend in elem. and now im a 4th year student. we have still communication until now, and he always reminded me about our promise.
DO I HAVE TO CONTINUE? when i know theres someone out there in the world makes me happy like what he did when im w/ him?
IS IT UNFAIR?
BUT B4 IM GOing to commit w/ someone i want to make sure that i saw him b4 i let go of my feeling and he too.
lawliet / January 9th, 2008, 9:46 pm / #
I agree with the article to an extent, but not completely. I had one best friend relationship that only lasted 2 months, which sucked. But I was still young and immature. But later down the road I found a new best friend and we didn’t admit to wanting each other until we’d been close for over a year. Once we got together, we’ve been happy ever since. We’ve been together for a year and a half. I couldn’t imagine being with anyone else. I guess point being, the article is right about taking a risk. Yes, with some best friends you may be ruining the relationship (like my first best friend relationship).. but then again, there’s also that chance of finding your soul mate, which I think I may have found with my girlfriend now. It’ll either really break the relationship, or really make it. Not every best friend is meant to be your girlfriend, as harsh as that sounds, but some are meant to. It’ll be the best thing to ever happen, or quite possibly the worst.
Anon / January 19th, 2008, 3:47 am / #
it’s such a terrible thing… when you love your bestfriend… and in my case she is my BESTfriend (in top, there is no friend like her) and I like her very much - I think about her every second in my life since 2 years ago - itВґs very painful, because if you tell her and she doesnВґt share the same feelings, you lose a friend (in this case the best of all, that truly one)… so I try a different strategy… read her body language, but even this failed to me and I explain why: sometimes she flirts with me a lot, and other times she seems to forget that I exist (ignore me or something like that), and this mixed signals make me confused… but this is recent (she never act like this before - start around 10 months ago. So you can imagine, if I was in true love pain (and it hurts a lot), how am I now?… the love pain is much more stronger than I am, and it drains all my forces… what should I do? (I feel that depression is my next stage)
Rui / February 6th, 2008, 12:27 pm / #
it’s such a terrible thing… when you love your bestfriend… and in my case she is my BESTfriend (in top, there is no friend like her) and I like her very much - I think about her every second in my life since 2 years ago - it´s very painful, because if you tell her and she doesn´t share the same feelings, you lose a friend (in this case the best of all, that truly one)… so I try a different strategy… read her body language, but even this failed to me and I explain why: sometimes she flirts with me a lot, and other times she seems to forget that I exist (ignore me or something like that), and this mixed signals make me confused… but this is recent (she never act like this before - start around 10 months ago. So you can imagine, if I was in true love pain (and it hurts a lot), how am I now?… the love pain is much more stronger than I am, and it drains all my forces… what should I do? (I feel that depression is my next stage)
Rui / February 8th, 2008, 8:37 am / #
oh… !really………. !!!!!!!
why is it that your stupid friend is the one that you like i understand you like you i also love my friend
ralph dhan / February 18th, 2008, 11:07 pm / #
a cute love story
thier was a girl who has leukimia and she is dying she has 1 month to live in this world.she had a crush on a boy selling vcd”s and dvd’s.
She buys dvd all the time just to see her crush.Her mother always remind her not to go outside cause it will be dangeruos for her.But then just to see her crush,she break the rules of her mother but her mother forgive her. Day after day she buy’s dvd.she wants to tell the boy how muchshe loves him.
then after 1 month the girl died,the boy went to the house of the girl.the boy ask her mother if the girl is still in thier house. then the mother said to the boy.the girl she wanted to see just died yesterday.the boy checked her room then she saw the vcd’s and dvd’s unwrapped.The boy cried cause inside of the unwrapped vcd’s are the love letters for the girl she wanted to be with.
ralph dhan / March 9th, 2008, 7:48 pm / #
Hi, i have a huge problem with this too, my friend and i were friends since honestly i dont remember but if i had to guess i think it would have to be 2 years old… but anyway since the past month i’ve really been attracted to her and its not just because well…you know she’s really the smartest, cutest, nicest, all around best girl i’ve ever met. also during this month it seems like shes almost flirting with me but not in like a big noticible way, and im exactly sure if she was but yea. i’ve always sort of liked her but…this past month i really feel that i love her…i know im a little too young to know about love and only had 1 other gf but i never felt this way about any1 before…she’s also a year older then me =P but all of my older friends say that 1-2 years dont really ever matter so… i dunno. but if any1 has any advice please tell me it would really solve the huge problem im dealing with right now thank you =]
Anonymous / March 11th, 2008, 9:32 am / #
U KNOW WAT being in love w/ some one older than you was never been wrong…but if the girl wants older than you..then let her go.. but its nice to try to court her or just tell her that you love her anyway i also loved a girl older than me..she didn’t like me we were best of friends since then but i tried ..friends nalang kaau di napipilit ang love
RALPH DHAN / March 31st, 2008, 4:53 pm / #
To an extent, I do agree with this post. But only to an extent. I fell in love with my best friend, and we have been together for three years now.
You do take risks when your in love, admittedly it took me a long time to bring myself to tell him, despite the fact we treated each other as if we were already going out, once you tell them it’s like a game of sudden death. If they don’t feel the same, the friendship could be awkwardly scarred.
On the other hand, as he was my closest friend, I knew him inside and out. I trusted him(which was very hard for me to do with previous boyfriends), and I felt completely comfotable with him. We had natural chemistry which brought us that close into a friendship. Chemistry isn’t necessarily just romance.
It is a big step to move things forward with a best friend, and if you chose to do it you must learn to accept the possible consequences if it doesn’t work out. You would generally find that playing safe is the better option to take.
Vikki / April 1st, 2008, 7:42 am / #
hi
its nice to tell feelings to someone .. telling feelings was never been wrong even though he or she doesnt love you or have some feelings for you
being in love is the hardest part of life its to choose ,to be hurt and hurt. i dont know true love was so suspicious and i dnt know try to explore
lawliet seven / April 5th, 2008, 9:39 pm / #
yo i know how all you are feeling. when i started Jr. High in 6th grade i meet this girl. and i liked her at first site. but i was afraid to tell her. over the year we became best friends. we talked all the time. and i started to like her more.in 7th grade we kinda got cut off a little bity thr. and in 8th grade i like her so much just about eneryone new it. about half way through the year she was dateing one of my best friends Shane. and he was 3 years older than her. and the last 2 or 3 of the school year i was rubbing her legs and some other things went on well she was dateing him. i dint know what else to do cause i happy. over the summer all i could do is think about her. and at the begging of our freshmen year she eas so beautfull and she ran up to me and gave me a hug. so about half wa ou
T.M. / April 13th, 2008, 4:31 am / #
We had been really close for the last 2 years of high school and we had sort of known each other since Intermediate. His sense of humour was so like mine and when he hit his growth spurt at the end of year 12, I saw he was hot instead of just cute. Somehow we got together in January after highschool graduation- this was hard for me because I didn’t trust boys to be respective of girls they were dating. (For some reason I was a cynic already at the age of 17.) But he convinced me that we should give it a go and so we started dating. Relative to people in my year at school, I was pretty inexperienced with guys full stop.
Now I’m glad to say we have been together since then (thats 2 years 2months) and I feel very close to him and we still crack each other up and have heaps of fun.
Goodluck with your bestie crushes everyone. But remember test the waters first before proclaiming your love, it’s just foolish otherwise
Anon / April 17th, 2008, 9:56 am / #
This article is so true. I have a really good friend and well we love to flirt with one another because well we hate seeing one another upset, and with flirting you laugh a lot. We would NEVER take it to the next step because we know it would hurt our friendship, one that we worked for, for so long. So if it your friendship means a lot to you then dont do it, just stick to being friends.
Melissa / April 21st, 2008, 11:31 am / #
this is so true. me & my best frien dhappened to be the “lucky ones” at the end. soul mates =]. but his best friend has absolutely fallen for him for a few years and she has this idea they are together or will be shortly and she tells everyone that….and he says no, its not like that, and shes like well of course not! but it never eally goes through her head. me & my guy are waiting for marraige for sex for sure, but we are very blessed and happy with eachother =].
Kaela / April 30th, 2008, 11:21 am / #
We have been really close since i started high school. his sence of humor was just like mine and when I seen him i know I had felling for him and then we became best mate. Then somehow we got together after term 1-This was very hard for me because my other mate like him to and every time she seen us together she would run away or not talk to us when were together then I found out that she like him. Then i found out that they were going out behind my back and that got my so pissed off that was the end of our friendship. And were havent be mate since. goodluky with your bestie crushes everyone.
S.S / May 10th, 2008, 4:00 pm / #
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