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Marry your best friend and stay happy forever.
Sometimes dating your best friend seems like the best idea because of your chemistry, similar likes and ease of conversation. However, the decision to be together may bring you closer or break your friendship altogether.
Here are seven things to consider before dating your best friend:
- Intimacy Can Change Everything
Being intimate with someone means you are literally opening up a new phase of interaction in your relationship. Having sex with your partner or a new person in your life is something that cannot be reversed. It will either be a hit or miss but this also means you are ready for your friend to see and assess your relationship with a sensual eye.
- Killing Your Friendship
It is never a nice feeling if a relationship does not work out with someone you really like but it hits differently when this person is your best friend. Things may never be the same if the relationship does not end on a mutual stance.
Often times, one partner may feel too sad while the other may feel too ashamed to continue the friendship.
- Your Guard Is Down
Dating your best friend may mean that the filter you may have applied to someone trying to come into your life may not have been applied with your best friend. This is because you already know each other and certain comfort levels have already been attained.
Try to be objective in every situation and do not drop your standards for your friend.
- Relationship Compatibility
Being best friends with someone does not mean that they will make the best partners in a relationship. Make sure you consider what you want in a partner first before dating your best friend.
- You Know Them Too Well
Your best friend has the ultimate scoop on you and details of your past. Are you willing to start a relationship with someone that may not give you a clean slate or be in a situation that will allow you to discover yourselves anew?
- No More Confidant
If you make your best friend your partner and it does not work out, then who will you turn to for advice, to confide in and to share your best moments with?
- Jealous Potential
If you have a failed relationship with an ex-best friend, chances are that you would be looking to cordon off your new partner’s best friends from the opposite sex.
Dating your best friend is a tricky decision to make. When best friends get together in a successful relationship, you can feel the love oozing from a mile away. There is also the risk that such a friendship will be reduced to exchanging birthday text messages.