Can you marry your best friend?
Whenever I come across a couple who seem to not only love each other, but like each other, I pay attention. There is something about a couple who are friends and lovers. I don’t know, call me romantic, but these are the couples seem to have a deeper, richer, and more loving connection.
Granted, I don’t really know what goes on in their private lives. Surely they go through the rough patches and manage to weather the storm. I think it helps a lot when you are truly friends. Is it possible to have the love of your life also be your best friend? I think it is! That is the kind of connection I want to have with my future husband.
We usually debate whether or not men and women can be friends. I want to know what you think about your lover becoming your best friend?
Do you consider your significant other your best friend? Do you think there is a deeper connection when there is a genuine friendship in your romantic relationships?
When you go beyond the dating stage and don’t have to impress each other, do you still enjoy being around them? Would you have something in common besides sex?
How does a couple manage to make their lover their friend? Do you start off as friends first?
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
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SlimNu
March 6th, 2013
3:53 pm
I know a guy that got soooo drunk he ended up getting up to take a dump in the middle of the night. I’m not sure if he didn’t quite finish or if he just didn’t make it to th bathroom but he had sh!tted all over the floor and on his feet. Ewwwwwwww
I can tell you one thing, sitting in traffic when you need to go REALLY bad is just not fun at all. I know one time I had to do some serious praying to make it to the next exit before I shar ted all over myself lol
disco
March 6th, 2013
3:53 pm
leggs – I keep waiting to hear one in yoga class. they know they shouldn’t be contorting folks all like that. lol.
Raqi
March 6th, 2013
3:54 pm
Reason #: 18276 to Marry your Best Friend. Embarrassing body functions. The comfort make situations less embarrassing.
Not to get too vulgar but experiencing a queef! Never even heard of them and having no idea it was happening. Talk about embarrassing. I had to look that thing up after quickly after getting to a computer.
Raqi
March 6th, 2013
3:57 pm
Leggs, when I used to frequent the gym you could hear near and distant farts all the time. Folks be stretching and bending…LOL
SlimNu
March 6th, 2013
3:59 pm
Cel – I think when the fart is out of the bag, wth a guy, that’s like opening up pandora’s box. You just cannot go back to when they tried to at least do it on the sly. Once that cat is out of the bag, they think its funny to sit next to you and let a loud one rip, or do it under the covers and throw the sheets over your head.
HST
March 6th, 2013
4:00 pm
I do yoga several times a week. The women are so beautiful, and I’m the only guy. I press on my stomach before I go. I make sure I’m not farting in there, I’d be so embarrassed.
SlimNu
March 6th, 2013
4:01 pm
Speaking of marrying your best friend, my cousin called me today at lunch and said she got proposed to over the weekend. It’s a guy she went to high school with but they never ever dated, slept together or anything of that sort. Some kind of way they reconnected, as friends and it snowballed into more…they go away to the cabins for a trip and BAM he pops the question. I’m so happy for her
HST
March 6th, 2013
4:02 pm
Been with my LTR for 13 years…she still farts privately. Only in her sleep have I heard the faintest of farts. She denies even those…
Celisea
March 6th, 2013
4:02 pm
Slim – Yep, that’s usually how it goes. It’s a joke at that point to bring up “being mindful of not being nasty.” I just try to keep with a bit of decorum.
Raqi
March 6th, 2013
4:04 pm
His embarrassing moment…
He hadn’t eaten all day so he stopped to get food on the way to my place. He ate an entire rotisserie chicken. Not long after he shows up things start to get heated fairly quickly. We going at it, him doing some of his finest stroking when he came to an abrupt stop, grabbed his stomach. The change of expression of his face….
Yall should have seen me trying to get from under him. I was like you better not throw up on me. LOL Having he had a talk with the porcelain throne he told me afterwards that he scoffed down an entire chicken on the way to my house.
Leggs
March 6th, 2013
4:04 pm
Since I leave early on Mondays and Wednesday, I’m going to leave the EOD @4:30!
Raqi
March 6th, 2013
4:06 pm
“I think when the fart is out of the bag, wth a guy, that’s like opening up pandora’s box.”
SlimNu, Yep because for them that’s like the grossest thing that we can ever do in front of them. Once that barrier has been broken it’s all good after that. LOL
HST
March 6th, 2013
4:07 pm
My buddy just got married to a GF from HS. They made a pact that if he hadn’t married or her by the time she turned 40 they would tie the not. They married a few years ago, and seem great. I had known him for a decade, and one day he goes meet my arranged marriage. I was like whaaaaaaaattttttt? You’re an American and Black…WTH?
kimmie
March 6th, 2013
4:07 pm
You guys are cracking me up!!LOL!!!
HST
March 6th, 2013
4:08 pm
Gotta go guys and gals, have a great evening.
Leggs
March 6th, 2013
4:08 pm
He ate an entire rotisserie chicken. – WOW, that’s right up there with this guy I know that fried 6 porkchops and ate every last one of them.
Raqi
March 6th, 2013
4:09 pm
“I just try to keep with a bit of decorum”
Celisea, yep. For a long time when we were dating I would go into his guest bedroom. As to not have the remnant of my function lingering in his bathroom if and when he went to use it.
Him at my place. It didn’t matter to him. He used the closest bathroom he was near.
SlimNu
March 6th, 2013
4:11 pm
This happened recently…just got back from eating dinner the other night and we’re chillin on the couch looking for something to watch on tv. I’ve secretly let out a silent but deadly one and when the deadly cloud hit my nose I started laughing to myself. He asks me what’s so funny, and I say nothing. He then laughs to himself and I assume it was something he saw on the computer. Well basically we BOTH let out silent but deadly’s at the same time and didn’t tell the other person. So All the while we’re laughing at the potential reaction the other will have when it hits their nose, we didn’t realize we’d both released the kraken. We both started cracking up when he came clean then I was like, well I did tooo!!! I was sitting there like I KNOW he has to smell that.
Raqi
March 6th, 2013
4:11 pm
Leggs, yes. He said he was starving. No breakfast or lunch and he just devoured that bird.
He paid for later though. LOL
Celisea
March 6th, 2013
4:11 pm
Raqi – LOL…that’s usually how it goes. Us, we’re making sure we keep etiquette. Them? Nasty jokers, makes them no nevermind…..lololol
disco
March 6th, 2013
4:11 pm
leggs – while 6 pork chops sounds bad (okay fine, it is bad) I can see how a grown man can knock that out easy. heck, thin cut chops aren’t that big plus put some hot sauce on it and it tastes so good. I’ve scarfed down 2-3 in a sitting myself. I figure if I can do that, a grown man or a teenage boy should be able to do 6 easy.
Bluzgirl
March 6th, 2013
4:12 pm
Any newbies lurking this afternoon may not come back with this conversation! LOL
Celisea
March 6th, 2013
4:13 pm
Eight pages!!!
Have a good evening folks!!
kimmie
March 6th, 2013
4:16 pm
Dang, now yall got me wanting some fried pork chops!!! I might have to hit Kroger on the way home!!
Roger
March 6th, 2013
4:24 pm
“Can you marry your best friend?”
Ewwwww I am not gay, my D is going no where near an A gross.
Leggs
March 6th, 2013
4:26 pm
Hey ya’ll, sprinkle some Italian Seasoning on your pork chops. Good flavoring.
Into the Light
March 6th, 2013
4:26 pm
MMMMMM….. pork chops. Now I’m craving them!
Leggs
March 6th, 2013
4:26 pm
The Italian seasoning you use in spaghetti (not the dressing). Just thought I clarify that.
Leggs
March 6th, 2013
4:27 pm
The eyes are never full if your heart is not right! – Anonymous
Nite!
Into the Light
March 6th, 2013
4:28 pm
@Slim: Yeah, your 3:59 is what I refer to as the dutch oven. I had an ex do that to me one night after Taco Bell. I was fighting like a wildcat to get my head out from under those covers!
Bluzgirl
March 6th, 2013
4:30 pm
Slim – Your 4:11 had me literally laughing out loud!!!
I’m going to a friend’s house for chili tonight and now I’m scared of how tomorrow will be! Glad I don’t have a date lined up!
Bluzgirl
March 6th, 2013
4:31 pm
When I dated Psycho in Seattle, he got really angry at me for letting out a burp. I was like…dude, really? Not like I forced it out. I have asthma and take in more air than most people, so it has to come out someway!
Into the Light
March 6th, 2013
4:32 pm
Night, Leggs!
Into the Light
March 6th, 2013
4:47 pm
…..and cue the crickets……
Button
March 6th, 2013
4:49 pm
while flatuance is a naturel bodily funciton, beano does help! I keep me a pack in my pocket book, when I can remember to take the darn thing! I still get tickled when I or someone else break a wind! don’t know why but it is the funniest thing. We act so surprisedhen someone fart!
Button
March 6th, 2013
4:51 pm
Bluzgirl- he sounds like a guest at the Bates motel! good riddence!
Button
March 6th, 2013
4:51 pm
Bluzgirl – better yet the owner of the Bates motel. lol
Bluzgirl
March 6th, 2013
4:53 pm
Button – you have no idea!!!! Definitely good riddence to him!
Bluzgirl
March 6th, 2013
5:00 pm
Good night to anyone still here!!!
Maya M Wilson
March 6th, 2013
6:50 pm
sounds like a plan..not for me..but sounds lovely for someone else