Gender?

True or a marriage

It's a double edged sword. It's also the best way to forge a realtionship.

Gender? I am of the female variety.

I know, I meant the friend. http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/w...inking0071.gif

lol, of the male variety.

Yeah, I literally married my best friend.I mean literally. Not the whole "Today I marry my best friend" hoo-hah that they put on wedding invitations. And we at one point, ahem, right before the divorce, kinda' agreed that we both got married (4 months after we started dating) because we didn't want to face the fact that sex had really made the possibility of our friendship ever being the same pretty much nullified.

I think that everybody is different and every relationship is different, but the logic that sex with your friend just enhances both the experience of the friendship and the depth of the sexual experience really doesn't play out too well in real life..

That's what I was afraid of. We've been best friends since we were about 15. I guess we just fucked that up! Haha...

I don't know about that. It took a good deal of emotionally honest communication and, of course, some time and space to really reconcile our friendship after our divorce, but everything turned out ok eventually. I don't necessarily think it has to be a lost cause.

Dating my close friend ruined the friendship after we broke up, I saw her as an ex not a friend. I am assuming friends with benefits never really work out either, but no experience.