explosions-in-my-pants

depends on why they were friends with you. If he has a thing for you then after a while he may get pissed off and just try to forget about you. If all he wanted was friendship then if any interest gets lost its because that normaly happens to people over time.how so? My friend stopped hanging out with all females after he started seeing his girlfriend... it really just depends on the trust between him and his girlfriend and how much he's willing to do for her.. she might not want him seeing you or any otehr girls any more.It is but trust me the guy never really gets over that.. cause he never hasa chance if you two are always best friends.
I had this happen to me before and he years later still told me loved me.
Everyone has them. Really just depends how comfortable you are with the person your having them with. People do run out of things to talk about every now and then.. and sometimes silence is just there and means nothing.
If that last question had to do with your best friend then I'm sure it depends on the conversation you two were having before hand.. OR just that you two have a comfortable line where you can have silence and it not be weird. But I 'm guesing you found it really awkward, so in any case then maybe your just worrying to much about whats going to happen with your friendship.

MoonlitSunshine

Also, with number 5, guys don't genrally have to talk when they're around people, especially those that they like. I've had times when all i wanted to do was just be near the girl, I didn't need to say anything, I didn't WANT to say anything. I've heard that sometimes this can be different for girls

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Merkaba

Lol number 5's a good one.

It's because guys want to tell you what they honestly think but know they're going to be tortured if they do. Girls are awesome at going from extreme to the other.

" Aw Jimmy have I upset you, I'm sorry"
"...No, I just think, you know, you nag a bit too much"

"YOU LYING BASTARD FUCK YOU THIS RELATIONSHIP IS FUCKING OVER".

Thats really why we stay silent, so we don't get brain damage.

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swim

Would you rather go out with a girl who looked average but you could like talk to all night and had loads of stuff in common or a hot girl who's a complete dud?

tdoc210

lol the first option
cause i hate stupid people

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sleepy jack

Yeah, after going out with multiple dumb chicks. I'd sooo pick someone I can hold a conversation with.

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Spike*Spiegel

what if you found a hot girl with brains and fun-ness to boot

TrampInaTux

Then she wouldn't be going out with me

boo boo

Girls with all three characteristics are rare, at least where I live.

I'd be eager to start a relationship with a girl who's attractive, smart and funny... But I can only hope she digs chubby, unshaven trailer trash, otherwise I'm out of luck.

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DontRunMeOver

Ok, these all apply to my own experience and aren't necessarily true across the board.

1) Only if
A - The friend has started to act like a tosser and doesn't look like stopping.
B - The friend or you have moved away from each other, so that you can't really hang out with them. If you can't do things with your friend so much then other friendships will start to become more interesting.

2) People alway 'act differently' that question is vague and is consequently useless.

3) If you mean that, if the relationship goes well, then his girlfriend will usurp you as his best female friend then YES. If you mean losing him as a friend entirely then probably NO, unless you yourself start acting annoying.

4) Yes.

5) Most guys don't have the same urge to talk constantly that a lot of women have. A lot of talking tires us out and sometimes we prefer just to sit around with our friends and not talk. If there is an 'awkward silence' then that means that you must not be talking too. If this is happening a lot then maybe it means you have lost whatever it was the two of you were talking about.

Oooh, wait, interesting thought I just had...
Just throwing an idea out here and this idea revolves around some assumptions, but maybe if your friend was interested in you then a lot of the conversations were based around what YOU were interested in. Maybe he gave precendence to the conversations topics that YOU started. You'd tend to do this if you had a crush on somebody.

If you've turned him down, then maybe he doesn't feel quite so interested in basing the conversations around your interests all of the time and maybe this leads to the awkward silences, when he doesn't really want to talk about your interests and you don't really know what he likes talking about, because the conversations have never really been about what he's interested in.

Just an idea, doesn't come from experience of romantic relationships, or failed attempts at them, but rather from friends that have annoyed me, their relationships and other observations like that.

****, that was long-winded.

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