Should you take your friendship to relationship??
July 30 is International day of friendship. Friendships are a great foundation to any relationship. Friends can lifelong or the start of a loving relationship. While you may have friends that you enjoy going out with and having fun, do they fill your relationship bucket?
The difference between a friendship and relationship is that in friendship two individuals are not dependent on each other and share a joyful bond among them while in a relationship two people are interdependent and have commitment and intimacy between them.
There are things to think about before you start thinking that this might actually work. So before proclaiming your love to your best friend, first, check in on your friendship, are you good friends, best friends or acquaintances? Evaluate your feelings, do you want more than friends or no? will you be willing to sacrifice your friendship if it doesn’t work? If it's still a yes, then the next step is to flirt and see what happens, do they reciprocate? Or are you already Friend zoned? too late? Do not move forward.
Because friendship, it turns out, can make or break a romantic relationship. This is not unexpected: Most people would identify friendship as a feature of long-term love, but a recent scientific study demonstrates how valuing friendship may improve one's relationship quality.
Flirt to test the waters. ...
Make sure you have the right kind of friendship for a relationship. ...
Be really honest about why you want to date them. ...
Go all in if you're going to do this. ...
Don't involve your friends too much in the beginning
The best way to tell if you are better off as friends is [asking yourself] how much you respect their values," life coach Kali Rogers tells Bustle. ... As Rogers puts it, "If you love being around someone but don't necessarily see eye to eye on things that are pretty important to you, it's best to stay friends.”
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