Should i date my best guy friend

We talk a lot, but I don't tell him everything. We do know a lot about each other, though. I barely know his name. He knows everything about me, but I don't know a lot about him. A lot. Yeah, but I'm happy as friends. All the time. Yeah, but he does it with every girl. We text a lot and it's always a fun conversation. He makes me laugh the entire time. I text him, but he never answers, or it's a short answer. He texts me all the time and it's always really long. We don't have each other's numbers.

I stare at him and hope he will ask me to dance, but he doesn't look my way. We dance together the entire time. He tries to dance with me, but I don't like him that way. We might dance with each other, but not a slow dance, or we would be talking all night. He would be with his friends the entire time. I wish. Yeah, sometimes I enjoy it, but not a lot. He does, but it kinda creeps me out. All the time and I love it. No, but I know he likes me. We don't know each other well enough to be sure.

We both like each other. I'm not sure, but I'm happy as friends. I know for a fact he likes me a lot. Yeah, but I know he doesn't like me. He is taller, but not a lot. He is a lot taller. Not even close to the same height. I'm a little taller. A little taller. Yeah, a lot - but I laugh because he's funny, not because I like him.

I laugh at everything he says. He tries to, but he isn't funny. It would never work. They think we're perfect for each other. They think we would be good, and ask if we are dating, but I don't like him - we're just really close friends. It wouldn't work because he doesn't like me back. It wouldn't work because I don't like him back. She definitely had a point there. Also, the flip side of that is that you may not want the person you're dating to know the details your best friend knows.

They know who you may have had an affair with. They know all your deepest, darkest secrets. This is a tough premise on which to build a romance. I mean, does anyone want to start a relationship already knowing everything there is to know about their partner?

Wouldn't a little mystery do a new relationship good? Granted, you'll get to see another side of your best friend, like how they are as a partner, but there's still so much that's already been discovered and it's that fact that's worth considering.

I'm currently in a non-relationship with a friend, who's technically a friend with benefits with whom I've fallen in love. Like that isn't a disaster waiting to happen or anything.

But, in addition to knowing that we've created one hell of a mess, I also know that our compatibility as partners versus our compatibility as friends are in completely different stratospheres. For the most part, he is not the type of person I would ever want to seriously date and I'm pretty sure he'd say the same thing about me — despite the mass amount of sexual chemistry between the two of us.

However, sometimes when you start dating your best friend, you assume the friendship compatibility will automatically cross over to the partner compatibility, but that's not always the case — if ever the case.

Basically, you think you're getting the real deal, but you just might be getting what your best friend wants you to see in the moment. The problem with that is that no one can keep up a charade forever.

When you're dating your best friend, exactly to whom are you supposed to turn when the person you're dating is being a schmuck or giving you a hard time? It's going to be really awkward to confide in your now-partner about all the things you'd confide in a best friend. So now what? Seriously; on whose shoulder do you cry and whose phone do you blow up with texts of complaints and disbelief? Definitely not your best friend, because they're no longer just your best friend!

While you may have other friends to whom you can turn, no one is quite like your best friend. That's just basic math. Meeting parents is massively stressful, but if this guy has hung around you enough, he's already familiar with your mom and dad.

And unless your parents ever pulled you aside with advice like, "I don't trust this hooligan! In fact, if you mention the relationship to your parents, you'll probably get the response of "Finally!

Granted, there's a chance that the two of you might just be a romantic mismatch. And there's a chance that this failed experiment might tarnish the friendship entirely. It's a scary situation! This has been your go-to guy for years, so you can't even imagine the possibility of removing him from your life if there's no love connection.

Your best friend is also scared about this possibility, but you know what? You're worth the risk. Knowing that this relationship will probably move much more quickly than the guy you successfully swiped on Tinder is a reality that both of you will face, but if you both agree to take the steps, you're both as Luke Danes might say "all in.

And, hey — It could also end up being a Jerry and Elaine situation, which would also turn out pretty amazingly. Unless you just met him and bonded instantly, he's probably seen — or at least heard about — your dating disasters of the past.

And, likewise. You've probably heard about how his last girlfriend was possessive, or needy, or crazy, or in a secret cult, or all of the above. While these events may have been traumatizing for the both of you at the time, the positive spin is that you both know what doesn't work in a relationship with the other person. This is key in starting a happy and healthy new relationship. So, if he knows that you were dumped due to an ex's cheating ways, he'll obviously know that you'll be ultra sensitive on the issue, and won't even make jokes about the matter.

Obviously there's a shared interest or two which caused you to meet up in the first place. Or, maybe it was a mutual friend who brought you together.