“After that, every time we saw each other, we would hug.
The hugs got longer and longer.”
“My husband and I were close friends, nothing more, for nine years.
One night, we were at a group gathering, and I kissed him goodnight on the cheek.
I couldnt stop thinking about how good it felt to hug him close.
After that, every time we saw each other, we would hug.
The hugs got longer and longer.
Our hands would go up and down each others backs.
More kisses on the cheek.
Weve been together for twenty years now.
It did feel really good to fall in love with a good friend.”
Well call him ‘M.’
At the time, I had been dating another coworker of ours for four years.
We would all frequently hang out after work together, along with several of our other coworkers.
My now-ex started to become jealous of M and Is friendship.
“One day, M asked me to help him with something in one of the supply closets.
He pulled me aside and asked if everything was okay because I had been avoiding him.
He sort of pulled away after a minute and then just went right ahead and kissed me.
We ended up hooking up right there in the closet at work.
My ex and I broke up not long afterward, and M and I left the company.
He is my best friend; I can tell him anything, and he keeps me safe and grounded.
I am the happiest Ive ever been and regret nothing.”
d00msauce
3.
“When we very first met, he wasn’t my throw in, so we began as acquaintances.
It was strange because at no point did it feel awkward; it just felt right.
Then, after six months of being inseparable, we were bullied by friends into making it official.
We’ve now been together for over eight years.
He moved across the country for me, and we’re about to buy a house together.”
“At 21, I met the one.
She became my wife, and we were together for 29 years until she passed in 2020.
Incidentally, my original crush and I remain best friends to this day!”
Quincy, 54, Colorado
5.
“We met freshman year of college through our cross-country team and quickly became inseparable.
Despite our friends constantly asking, we always stuck with the ‘were just best friends’ response.
I think thats when I knew he was more than my friend.
Tom and Kevin were quite close.
One night, about three months after the breakup, we got drunk and made out.
We fell in love.
The fallout with Kevin was pretty intense, and he didn’t talk to us for years.
The rest of our friends were unsurprised and pretty supportive.
This was years ago.
Tom and I are now married with kids, and everyone is still friends!”
Anonymous, 40, Canada
7.
“My colleague and I became really good friends quite quickly.
We were texting and joking all day, every day.
This went on for about six months.
It turned out to be a pretty good decision.
Weve been together for over seven years, married for three, and have a 1-year-old son.”
“We met in high school in the mid-’90s when he was dating a good friend of mine.
They got back together and had another kid.
Cookie, 43, Texas
9.
“We met when we were 13 and became best friends at 15.
Still, we never truly lost contact, even FaceTiming from time to time on different continents.
“I had a fairly decent friend that I met freshman year of college.
We hung in the same group and ended up getting super close.
Schedules changed for the next semester, and suddenly, his bestie didnt have the same breaks.
So it was just us.
He had an apartment right off campus, so it was walkable.
Soon, we were spending ALL our free time together.
It was just easier to crash there during finals.
One morning, I woke up in his bed.
“The sleepovers got more frequent.
The lines blurred way too much.
The sex was amazing.
A years worth of tension makes for a good time.
One day, he texted me and asked me, ‘What the hell are we doing?’
I told him I thought we were just having fun (cant admit you have feelings for the guy.
Thats so lame).
Fast forward 12 years, weve been married seven years and have two kids.
Hes my partner and my best friend.”
Anonymous, 34, Louisiana
11.
“I was in a relationship for two years when a new guy started in my company.
But for some reason, I always wanted to be near him in social events.
During lunch breaks, I would always laugh with him or smile when he looked at me.
It turns out that my co-workerhad a crushon me for a really long time.
Almost a year later, I am in the happiest and healthiest relationship that I have ever been in.
Now I really know what ‘if he really wanted to, he would’ means.”
“My soon-to-be husband and I have known each other our entire lives.
Our families are super close.
Ultimately, we connected as friends while he was talking to this girl.
They never were in a committed relationship, just talking and casually dating.
But we ended up hooking up a bit at the same time.
He ultimately ended things with her, and we started dating, and now were getting married.
Its crazy how life works out.”
Anonymous, 32
13.
I started dating his roommate at first, and all three of us would hang out all the time.
He became one of my best friends.
Then, his roommate and I broke up, and we stopped hanging out as much.
I realized that I honestly missed spending time with him (my now-husband) more than my ex.
But he did not take the couch because I had made my move.
I kissed him, and I hadnt looked back.
Its been almost ten years.”
