How different is it being in relationships with someone you don't know that well or friends?

Question

How different is it being in relationships with someone you don't know that well and someone who you have been friends for a while?

What were you experiences and what went wrong or right on them? which one do you prefer?

Answer 1

Lets just say the friendship to lover relationship was the most intense, most bitter-sweet, most life changing, most dyanmic, and proubly forced me grow more then anything else I've been in, in my life. (or else it would of broke us both, of course we didn't make no promises of romantic love and we kept it pretty fing honest). And Not long after that I ran into a 6 month relationship with a new person, wow, what a bad idea, don't think I could do it that way again, after what I had with that friend, it just was never near as intense, we were not near as close, and there was SO MUCH GROUND to cover. Ended pretty undramatic, and with a feeling of relieft, while with my friend the feelings were beyond worlds. Me and the friend went are seperte ways since then, and unfornutnely don't talk right now (long story there but the reason make sense, with in our individual relationship). But really what you need to understand is that romantic love is only part of love, but a person doesn't realize that until they let the love of friendship grow, into something, even more intense, and even more real. I'd do it again, and again with her, knowing the pain I'd go thru, and the sacrifices I made, just becasue for the frist time, the love was geniune! Besides I didn't have to work for a future I might not have, and got to concentrate on a present that was right there in front of me.