When potential lovers are actually excellent friends
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article content A few weeks ago, I was having coffee with a girlfriend and the relationships turned to dating. I told her that I wasn’t sure where things were going with a new person in my life. “worst of all scenario, We’ll end up as neighbors, I rumoured. when the words slipped out, I regretted the whole bunch. Why was I framing friendship as a consolation prize?Story goes below
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a core set of better example of this in popular culture than The Friendzone, an expression (Coincidentally) Coined by those show.
write-ups I find this strange given that my friendships almost always outlast my romantic and sexual partners. often, Why do relationships have to be exclusively one or the other?
(to the record, I’ve peeked behind the curtain of the Friendzone and plan on scribbling a Yelp review. definitely [url=https://chnlovescamornot.tripod.com/]chnlove real or fake[/url] wine and cheese! There’s good experience and inside jokes! There’s people who care about and respect each other’s boundaries! I might even make a reservation there later tonight.)
Uncertainty is difficult. It’s man’s instinct to want to categorize and label everything so as to mitigate potential discomfort and unknowingness. when it comes to my own relationships, I have a habit of going to them like a junior high schooler sneak reading a steamy romance novel that they pilfered from their parent’s top shelf. i have to skip ahead to all the juicy parts. It’s almost like I’m purchasing a guarantee that if I invest my time, you might have a satisfying payoff. But what if we just let ourselves become familiar each other without trying to guess the ending.
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Marianogxm
2 years agoWhen potential lovers are actually excellent friends
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article content A few weeks ago, I was having coffee with a girlfriend and the relationships turned to dating. I told her that I wasn’t sure where things were going with a new person in my life. “worst of all scenario, We’ll end up as neighbors, I rumoured. when the words slipped out, I regretted the whole bunch. Why was I framing friendship as a consolation prize?Story goes below
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a core set of better example of this in popular culture than The Friendzone, an expression (Coincidentally) Coined by those show.
write-ups I find this strange given that my friendships almost always outlast my romantic and sexual partners. often, Why do relationships have to be exclusively one or the other?
(to the record, I’ve peeked behind the curtain of the Friendzone and plan on scribbling a Yelp review. definitely [url=https://chnlovescamornot.tripod.com/]chnlove real or fake[/url] wine and cheese! There’s good experience and inside jokes! There’s people who care about and respect each other’s boundaries! I might even make a reservation there later tonight.)
Uncertainty is difficult. It’s man’s instinct to want to categorize and label everything so as to mitigate potential discomfort and unknowingness. when it comes to my own relationships, I have a habit of going to them like a junior high schooler sneak reading a steamy romance novel that they pilfered from their parent’s top shelf. i have to skip ahead to all the juicy parts. It’s almost like I’m purchasing a guarantee that if I invest my time, you might have a satisfying payoff. But what if we just let ourselves become familiar each other without trying to guess the ending.
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