Love and Friendship Can Friends be Lovers

Before you consider launching a friend based romance you should first realize what a love based on friendship has to offer.  There are important odds to weigh before you make the commitment to a friend based love.  Be careful and ask yourself if you may be settling in this relationship as you feel time is running out, you know that dreaded clock ticking.  First and foremost there is no clock, no measure of time as to when anyone should be in a committed relationship.  We as a society have long evolved past this standard.

Note: The biggest mistake anyone can make is to marry a friend because they've given up on true love or the prospect of ever falling in love, writing it off as a myth.  I'm here to tell you falling head over heals in love can happen and true love is amazing. I've lived this.  I married my best friend only to have it end in divorce as true love did in fact come knocking. It's a very painful situation to be in, married to a friend and facing true love with all the unexpected intense emotions that come with it.

WARNING - After committing to a friend based relationship one of the partners may later find true love of a different sort to be more intense, passionate and fiery proving in fact that true love does exist and is more desirable than one based on the comfort of friendship.

1. The area of sex is less important to the storage lover as they hold common interest in higher regard, caring and compassion, all the traits that made for such a strong friendship in the first place.
2. The person that finds this love type appealing is less likely to take risk or attempt to explore a more idealistic love of epic proportions as they are cautious people, never the thrill seeker type.
3. Excitement is not a main ingredient is a friend based relationship.
4. A storage friendship love is less about romance and more about security and reliability.
5. The most common problem this relationship suffers from is boredom.  
6. Friend based love affairs often serve as practice for the person other wise lacking confidence to persue other relationships.
7. The friendbased romance removes risk and reduces the risk of rejection.

Many people find themselves in a friendship based love commiting their lives to it. Be warned, these types of relationships can easily come unraveled by one of the two partners realizing their potential to enjoy a more intense and passionate love. They may instinctively seek it out or respond to it openly once the opportunity arises.  

We humans are merely animals when it comes to love, sex and the chemistry that occurs attracting us to the opposite sex. This raw instinct can lead any of us to land smack dab in the middle of a steamy intense love affair we do not wish to leave.