date your best friend

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/news/a4822/forty-days-of-dating-interview/

a book talks about an "experiement" in dating your best friend. the two authors dated each other and wrote about it.

would u date your best friend?

 

No way. Even if she was to become single again. We have been tight since 6th grade but I'm sure we are not compatible in that way. I call her my sister. Have been good friends with her now husband since college.

 

yeah i can dig that. it would be scary to take that leap tho.

 

Beasty, your avi is throwing me for a loop. Lol. I see your name and a woman's picture and it doesn't compute.

 

I have (a BM), and it turned out to be a disaster in the end.

 

I've never dated my best friend. If I did, it would drastically change the dynamic of our relationship(but I may be wrong). If it works out, it is because of the following factors:

1. Knowledge of ourselves.

2. Shared experiences and interests.


Comedian Chris Titus once said on his short-lived Fox sitcom, that best friends are good and bad because they know you better than you know yourself.

This observation was better explained in the film The Best Man where Terence Howard's character of the musician Quint was often left alone because he knew about all of the characters because he had seen their strengths and weaknesses up close and from a distance. He could read them like a book and he studied them hard. And that is what scared them about Quint.

 

What ever happen to titus? I loved his show.


edit: man where has the time gone.... his show was on over a decade ago.....

 

what happened

 

I knew I was gonna rattle a few heads.

 

lol

 

Nope. My best female friend and I could not generate any sexual attraction toward each other to save our lives.

 

I think he is either still doing stand-up or is a comedy writer. Maybe both.

 

It's a looooooong story. One of the most disappointing/saddest stories of my life.

 

hm, i never dated a best friend, but i became best friends with men i dated. think that s the better result.

 

Sooo.... are you saying I should stop dating [very select] friends and actually start "dating" random dudes that are not my friends to begin with?!

 

haha, naw girl. you gotta do what you gotta do ^^... i m just saying how it was for me. i have at least one best friend right now that i d date unseen if it would come up - but it doesnt. so its all good.

 

What I gotta do is keep it (continuously) single. Boys are nothing but trouble anyway.

 

hm.. many yeah. lucky i m at a point in life where i can say not all. on the other hand i met a lot of women that are serious drama (not saying you are). i d say it goes both ways.

 

I was married for 10+ years. Most of the time I could say the same. Still, it is what it is.

 

Hell no