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Not necessarily better but my wife was a friend prior (roommate even before) to our relationship. In fact i was with another woman at the time we first met.
Certainly NOT! That implies you can only date people who are already in your "circle of friends". Too many men complain of having been friendzoned...that's because they only date women who don't see them as potential partners. It certainly can work that way and is great when it does, but if that were the case then online dating would never work!
Do you have to start off as friends first before you enter a relationship?
Or can it be possible to hit it off already and start dating and beyong boyfriend/girlfriend?
Whats your opinion on this?
Did you start off as friends before you met your partner or did you get all kissy and lovey dovey first?
Kissy and lovey dovey? Oh my.
No, you don't need to be friends first and I think for the majority, they aren't friends first. Friendship and romance can grow at the same time, they don't need to happen one before the other. Being friends first never guarantees that romance will develop from it.
In some cases yes, but not always. . . I certainly don't pull guys out of my "friendzone" to date, , , , but when getting to know a new man that I am attracted to, developing some sort of foundation of friendship is highly important to me. So even if things don't necessary work out, @ least I've made a new friend/connection.
Do you have to start off as friends first before you enter a relationship?
Or can it be possible to hit it off already and start dating and beyong boyfriend/girlfriend?
Whats your opinion on this?
Did you start off as friends before you met your partner or did you get all kissy and lovey dovey first?
To build a friendship, a rather long and strong one, first, and then turn it into a relationship, makes it necessary to be in a setting where 2 people meet each other constantly, like being job colleagues, or go to the same school or college, enabling them to see each other often, even daily, where the focus of being together is not on going into a relationship itself, right from the get go, like when people meet on an online-dating site.
If people meet on an onine-dating site the end goal is getting intimate, everybody knows this and wants this.
How long it takes for the individual to get there is very individual and depends on so many things
So, I would say both options are possible, it all depends on the people in question, and what their expectations and aspirations are.
Mr. CSD and I were friends for 5 years before we became we so I am obviously biased but I believe being friends for a few years first helps build a more solid foundation for a relationship.
Friends like being buddies, punching each other in the shoulder, burping and farting with reckless abandon? No.
Friends like hanging out platonically but secretly want to bang each other ? Yes.
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