Most people will see this as the best way to start a relationship but it actually isn’t. Your best friend is not meant to be your future bae, you need them when your world starts to crumble. Loving each other will only complicate things in the long run and end the closeness you once had when you breakup.
I think some of these reasons can best explain the feeling you might go through once you date your best friend.
Sex may not be as you imagined. Sleeping with your best friend may go sideways or it could be the best experience of your life, and once you have sex and its not great you may not look at them the same way. Sometimes it can go bad and you realise that you made the worst mistake of your life. But then maybe it takes that to know how valuable your friendship is.
Entangled feelings. Its a rare situation to have one best friend be more into the other than expected especially if you are of the opposite sex, you know since people think a male and female can’t be friends. If you two decide to get intimate and take it to the next step then, what happens to your friendship? And if you decide to break it off then, what next?
There’s nothing new to learn. With nothing new to learn about each other, not only could your conversations end up circling around the same topics, but your relationship will lack that spike of excitement that usually comes with learning all about a person upon dating someone new.
You may need a new best friend. Without realising it, you will not have as much to talk about as you had before you started dating. Being a best friend and a girlfriend, are two different things and at some point you’ll need to fill up the empty slot in your life.
Nothing will be the same when you break up. Just in case things happen to end on a bitter note, you won’t magically fallback into being the best of friends again with no ill-feelings. So before you take the plunge from best friend to girlfriend, decide whether losing your friend will really be worth it.
There are so may more reasons to add up and some of you already know some and have even experienced most of this, don’t let a great friendship end because you can’t keep it together. However, that doesn’t mean sometimes these best friend relationships don’t work out, they do.
