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but what if it ruined the whole friendship in the end?

Guy friends or girl friends, you've known them since you were little, or for a while at least. One day, you're both in high school and you realize out of the blue, "I love him/her!" That's stupid. Stories on the romance section of this site have girls who think they're cynical and kick-butt, different and all that, but they're really shallow, falling for the guy they claim to hate just because they think he's handsome. If people in the real world were like that, then I would have given up on humanity. But who says that I haven't already?

Look, it's possible that best friends may decide to become a couple. But it's not always going to work, and even if it does there are going to be problems. All the stories on the romance section where best friends fall in love end when they first get together. You never know what happens next or if they remain perfect or if the friendship goes downhill.

As for the wallflower thing - well, aren't most flowers supposed to be pretty? Attracting the birds and bees and all :P But really, I don't even believe the stereotypical wallflower and jock status exists in real life. Have you ever seen some one who's the epitome of jock? Most of the time there's either no one who really fits the bill completely, or there's more than one. So how do you know which jock you're talking 'bout?

I think Disney's actually pretty fake. As in it's very fantasy-like, mostly, but it gives a person some hope that life can be that way. Or at least give them this fuzzy feeling for just that short period of time. ^^

-fA

It's rare, but it happens.

Besides, I LIKE happy endings. Whoever doesn't agree with me is just depressed or something.

Honestly and truly its a matter of opinion i mean a pretty wallflower COULD fall for the jock king if they both feel love for eachother and best friends could gfet together as well but love has to be in the realationship

Of course it's possible. I had that situation, we were together rather long, but it's kind of the situation which screwed everything. I mean, it's possible and I know a few cases which are happy ever after. Same thing for the love at first sight.

I disagree. Best friends CAN become good partners. After all, if they were already so compatible as friends, why not as lovers? I believe I'm a living example of this. My boyfriend and I were best friends for a long time before we got together. It was a little awkward at first, but we've been together for a year now.

Friends, or best friends? In the case of best friends, I'd have to say I've seen it happen where the best friends fall in love (or at least think they do) and get together. In the friends genre, I have experience there that says it happens. The guy I am currently dating and I have been friends for almost two years and just got together in March and we're working out fine. Are we going to be together forever? No. We knew that going into the relationship. We're as different as we are similar. Our relationship works at the moment because we both had the same emotional and physical needs at the time we got together. Our long-term ideas for partners are too different for us to remain together long-term though. We both want different things in a partner and life itself.

So, the getting together works, but it doesn't always last. Every once in a while, they work out and the couple ends up getting married. A couple I know was together all throughout their high school career just got married at the beginning of July and are happy with their relationship.

But, seriously, wouldn't you have to be friends of some sort before you actually start falling in love with someone? Have something in common? You can date to realize what that is but in the end you and your partner will have to have some kind of friendship before you can call it love because with friendship comes trust and loyalty, and without those, love is a complete loss.

loooooooooooooooooooooooooool it depends on the people...but in general i do believe that best friends can become lovers and have thier happy endings.for example my cousin is married to her best friend of 18 years

Well, not really..

I think that it's entirely possible, but I tend to drift on this topic. So here's what I think at the moment:

I think it's entirely POSSIBLE for two best friends to get together at one point in time and take the friendship further. After all, tehy already know each other well enough to acknowledge each other's flaws and good points...I wrote a story actually where two best friends realize that they're in love (but the ending's kinda sad actually so yeah)

Which brings me to my other side of the debate.

It's POSSIBLE for best friends to get together, but ultimately, whether they END UP togtehr for a happy ever after or whatever is based entirely on their choices and fate. After all, the downside to knowing each other so well is that the spice kinda fizzles out after a while. I mean, there's nothing new worth discovering anymore, and I feel that love is all about discovering new things that you've never known before.

My suggestion is that you do write a story about best friends falling in love, but you also put in a context that would apply to real life. After all, some of the comments here are right: there actually ARE people who end up together after having been best friends for who knows how many years. For me, I wrote about two best friends falling in lvoe but not ending up together. Because hey. IN real life, love isn't always that easy.

Did this help?

Well, not really..

I think that it's entirely possible, but I tend to drift on this topic. So here's what I think at the moment:

I think it's entirely POSSIBLE for two best friends to get together at one point in time and take the friendship further. After all, tehy already know each other well enough to acknowledge each other's flaws and good points...I wrote a story actually where two best friends realize that they're in love (but the ending's kinda sad actually so yeah)

Which brings me to my other side of the debate.

It's POSSIBLE for best friends to get together, but ultimately, whether they END UP togtehr for a happy ever after or whatever is based entirely on their choices and fate. After all, the downside to knowing each other so well is that the spice kinda fizzles out after a while. I mean, there's nothing new worth discovering anymore, and I feel that love is all about discovering new things that you've never known before.

My suggestion is that you do write a story about best friends falling in love, but you also put in a context that would apply to real life. After all, some of the comments here are right: there actually ARE people who end up together after having been best friends for who knows how many years. For me, I wrote about two best friends falling in lvoe but not ending up together. Because hey. IN real life, love isn't always that easy.

Did this help?

That's true. "There's always hope. It's bad to disbelieve. It's limiting yourself." (Yeah, I changed the middle part, lol.)

I mean, this world is HUGE. I bet there are still PLENTY of things we have yet to write about. Think of the possibilities. It's not like you've heard every story there is to tell.

Dude,

Need 'n' Know,

you are flipping pancakes everywhere!

But that's okay. :)

To this topic? Well, I think that the things you mentioned, the "clichés" as most people call them (though that's awkward for me to say since I'm in French Immersion), are possible.

Maybe they don't live up to expectations all the time, but I would like to remind all of us that we are writing stories. Most of our stories end up being quite far from the truth and reality, but hey. That's the main thing that sets each author apart from the other. The way they tell the story, right?

It is possible though. I mean, personally, I've seen all of those clichés happen.

On the level of romanticness though, it depends on the people.

:)

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