Should friends date?!

I advice that you just have to stay near... though there exist scars in your relationship, but it doesn't mean you have to give up your friendship with him. But it doesn't also mean that you have to wait lifetime... you have to be open to others opportunity. Sometimes we encountered pains but those pains help us to grow and be matured enough to think. You just have to stay near... don't give up!

i am dating someone i was best friends with for a decade. it's been 3 years since we became a couple, and now i am seriously thinking about ending it in favor of going back to being just friends. but i know the temperament of this person....how he will react if i ask him to go back to how it was before. in my mind, we never became a 'real' couple. i think he knows that too, but is so desperate not to be left single again, that he won't accept breaking up. we were never 'right' for each other in the first place, but came together as loving friends in time of need. we have been a great support system for each other over time, but i think that doesn't necessitate being a 'couple'. we can be just friends like we were before and still support each other. we have been pretty much platonic for the past 3 months anyway, meaning we wouldn't be losing out on physical benefits to being in a couple. we're not really affectionate with each other... but it is killing me that i have to tell him i want to break up. he has never done anything wrong but i know he will take it that way. so i think that eventually we will become friends again, but even if *I* can be like i was with him before, i have a feeling that he will never treat me the same way once we've broken up. it sucks. but i think if you and your ex are still friends, even if the dynamic changed somewhat, embrace it. be happy that you are not enemies!

I don't see why not. If they want to date, at least try dating and see how it works out. That's just how I look at it. I've known some women that are friends of mine and have been very close. We went out for a day and that's about it. You never really know if it will work or if it won't unless you try.

that's sad.. i am just glad that my 2 bestfriend are gays

I agree with nakitalikely and have the same questions for you. It indeed is very hard to be friends with a friend who you madly love.

of course u 2 can't go back as before, if i broke up with my bf, i would feel embrassessd each time i met him.

Was the break up a bad one? Do you have feelings for this fiend? I have been there before, I knew the guy even since I was 3 and we started to date when was 12. I fell madly in love with im then we broke up and dated other people. We got back together and then broke up again get very jealous when I see him now because I am very much still in love with him. It is hard to be friends we yu re madly in love with yur friend.