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wendieann
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Reged: 11/13/06
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Loc: Manitoba, Canada

Close Friendship VS Relationship

#324264 - 11/23/07 12:09 PM

I'm just curious as how you would describe the differences between the two.
[u]Important Friendship VS Common-law Relationship[/u]

Quite often there are major similarities with both, but what do you consider differences.

Here is my starting of it...

Both
1. someone you can talk to and confide in
2.
3.

Relationship
1. sex
2. living together (?)
3. has "duties" around the house and does them without asking (GWIM)
4. helps with the children
5. when not working are with you and the children
6. someone who attends majority of family events with
7. someone you plan on including in events

Friendship
1. helps out when asked, and sometimes when not asked
2. stays out of taking over "parental" responsibilities
3. someone you invite to events

Feel free to elaborate, I'm just tossing ideas out.

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1004SRS
Carpal \'Tunnel

Reged: 12/11/06
Posts: 5044

Re: Close Friendship VS Relationship

[Re: wendieann]
#324340 - 11/23/07 05:54 PM

I want a boyfriend, but not a husband. I want someone to run around with and talk to about grown up stuff. I NEVER want to get married again. I don't want a father for my kids, they have a father. I want someone to have relationship, comfy s3x with - not one night stand stuff.

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SusanC
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Reged: 12/04/07
Posts: 19

Re: Close Friendship VS Relationship

[Re: 1004SRS]
#329317 - 12/05/07 07:49 AM

To me a boyfriend is my lover but also someone I want to spend time with and who is my best friend.

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KentuckySm
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Reged: 07/06/07
Posts: 773

Re: Close Friendship VS Relationship

[Re: SusanC]
#329866 - 12/06/07 02:30 PM

sex and spending all your spare time together is the differance. I have had best friends that I have lived with and so on, but never ever crossed the line to a relationship ( boyfriend). I am with my best friend now. We turned it into a relationship over 2 years ago and just got engaged on Turkey Day. As for the boys... I have been in their lives since their birth. I am the god mother of the two oldest. I have helpped parent them all. I even named the youngest. My SO and I never thought about a relationship together. We were just friends. To him I was one of the guys. To his ex I was her best friend til she did so terrible things to me. We split ways for about a year until he came to me as a friend when he was going through a divorce. After a few months of talking we decided to give it a try as a couple. And it worked. I guess we got lucky. It's been very eazy for the boys too. They have their rooms at the house back and their playroom. His ex is not happy one bit with it all, but then she has no room to whine since she had an affair with his ( use to be ) best friend and they are still together.

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