Saturday, September 8, 2007

Marrying your bestfriend ....???

A couple weeks ago, I had an interesting, yet confusing conversation w/someone about opposite sex best friends and marriage. I agree that your husband should be your best friend, but I honestly just can't see marrying my current male best friend. Our relationship is purely platonic.

The person I had this conversation with stated something along the lines of if several years down the road, he doesn't find anyone he wants to marry, he wouldn't have a problem marrying his best friend. This is where my brain turns to mush and gets confused .. if you can already see yourself marrying your best friend, why not try to be w/them now? I'm not saying that you have to get married or anything .. maybe have more of a romantic relationship?? I really don't know.

Are both people looking around to see if any better prospects enter the picture? Does one have more and/or different feelings for the other? Are they simply not ready for that kind of committment? Are they wasting the time(s) of any people that might have interest in them now? What happens if one gets married to someone other than the friend? Do either one of them use coy tactics w/the intention of sabotaging the other's potential relationships? Are one or both in denial? Are they just going to settle for each other?

Now, can you see/understand why my head spins? All these questions that linger in my brain and circle around this subject. Ya know .. maybe I am just missing completely missing some pieces to my puzzle.

So, let me know some of your thoughts about this .. maybe it will help my thinking come to some sort of peaceful resolve.

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