Would you destroy a friendship?
By sender621
@sender621 (14894)
United States
April 4, 2011 5:06pm CST
We go through so many relationships in our lives. many of them turn out to be strong friendships we need to see us through. We would do anything for a friend. It is often confusing when we begin to develop feelings of more than friendship for the spouse of a friend. We can't tell the heart who to love. Do we do everything we can to hang onto our friendship ? Do we let loose with the feelings we might have for someone who is taken? Would you destroy a friendship that you have just to be intimate with their spouse? Would it be worth the risk?
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16 responses
@jennyze (7028)
• Indonesia
6 Apr 11
I would try my hardest to stop my feeling and not to destroy the friendship, as for me friendship is more important and I don't want to be the cause of a broken relationship. If I could not stop my feeling, I would try to avoid them, and only meet them wen necessary.
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@sender621 (14894)
• United States
6 Apr 11
When you do something break a relationship it is not only you that suffers from this. Everyone involved is affected. Even others who know have their own opinions about you now.
@rosegardens (3034)
• United States
4 Apr 11
Nope. I would not even consider dating someone a friend has dated, just to avoid any feelings my friend might have. In a marriage, very intimate things go on and I would not want to have that with someone I am not married to, nor would I want to come between a couple who has that.
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@sender621 (14894)
• United States
4 Apr 11
Sometimes a friendship is more important to us than our own feelings. Judging what is right for us and for our friendships can be quite a trial. Coming between a husband and wife can end up coming between your friendship as well and there is a hard journey back.
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@rosegardens (3034)
• United States
5 Apr 11
My friends, and my character are high on my list to preserve. Not only would I not want to hurt anyone, I want to be trustworthy so people are comfortable around me. People of high character are drawn to those cut from the same cloth.
@sublime03 (2339)
• Philippines
5 Apr 11
Never ever destroy a friendship no matter what. When you meet a person and once you know they are taken, always mindset yourself that you will only be friends with that person no matter what. Because once you have that feeling for that person you would definitely not take that feeling back. How could you? But as my friends would say, you can never tell especially with the matters of your heart. Mindset yourself on matter with love because if you fall for it, it would definitely be hard for you to put yourself together once you are stuck in this so called being intimate with a married person. As I have told my friends who are involved in these such things, be happy for as long as you do not step on anyones' life. Be involved for the right reasons but then again for as long as you are not taken for granted and vice versa then go.
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@sender621 (14894)
• United States
6 Apr 11
Knowing the boundaries that need to be set are half the battle. Knowing when to step over the line or to step back is essential to the relationship.
@tkonlinevn (6438)
• Vietnam
15 Apr 11
Although you're not friend of her/him, you shouldn't be intimate with their spouse. It's crimes! And your crimes will be too heavy if he/her is your friend!
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@sender621 (14894)
• United States
15 Apr 11
Betrayal of a friend can be a difficult burden to bear. A lot of guilt and regret would be carried on your shoulders and in your heart.
@chickimmy (44)
• Philippines
5 Apr 11
It's true that sometimes we can't dictate our hearts who to love. But it is not worth destroying a friendship for someone who is already married. You will not be totally happy knowing that you've hurt someone dear to you. You should not take away someone's happiness in order to find yours.
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@sender621 (14894)
• United States
6 Apr 11
If you have to steal away someone else's happiness, then how can you ever be sure that the happiness you have is really yours. there will always be that question when you take something from somebody.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
5 Apr 11
Once we would let ourselves take that risk, then there is no turning back. Friendship isn't something that you can ask for and receive.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
5 Apr 11
no no. dont ever do that. my first husband and i had some great friends. but he continued to go out with the guy and come home with him drunk. his friend kept telling me he was fooling around with other women. and the friend said he loved me, over and over. finally the temptation got to much. i ended up sleeping with him. it ruined everything. with just one mistake.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
5 Apr 11
It's sad but true that this happens. It only takes one mistake that we can't take back to ruin so many lives.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
5 Apr 11
Some friendships are rare to find. Losing them is not always the best choice we can make even if the pleasure would be extreme in doing so.
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
5 Apr 11
No I could not consider someone taken to be interested in. I would refrain because I can't imagine hurting a friend. I suppose my thought would be that I do not want to be in that persons shoes. I don't feel it is worth the risk.
I know that life sometimes can be unpredictable and one can fall for someone who they should not but my thinking would be to not do so because a love can come and go but a friend somehow can be with us longer term.
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@sender621 (14894)
• United States
5 Apr 11
I agree that romance is something that can fade with time. A friendship is something more. fighting to hold on to it can be wiser for our choices in relationships.
@katie0 (5203)
• Japan
5 Apr 11
Never, all friends I lost was because of circunstances (lost adress when I moved), they were interested in some help and then were gone or I ended because the girl was phony. I never started, I find friendship one of the most important things in life, just right there with love.
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@sender621 (14894)
• United States
5 Apr 11
Love and friendship are qualities that are hard to deny. they can make or break us. Hanging on to them is vital to our existence. Anything else is just an added bonus. Interfering in relationships where we don't belong is often our downfall.
@anneish (117)
• Philippines
5 Apr 11
no...it's not worth it at all!
first...the one you like is already taken,have a wife and will build there own family and for sure they truly love each other.
second...both of them are your friends, and i know that you will not be happy to destroy someones relationship, don't you?
lastly...i think you need to find someone whose not committed with anybody for you to feel the real happiness of having someone you love.
what you feel right know can be avoided, all you have to do is to tell yourself that he is not suit for you because he already committed with somebody.
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@sender621 (14894)
• United States
5 Apr 11
Commitment is something we put so much of our hearts into. When we break that commitment in any relationships or friendships that we have, we are taking so much away from ourselves and those we care about.
@xien2xien (1382)
• Philippines
5 Apr 11
i probably suggest not to go into deeper trouble if he/she is married let them go especially if their partner is your friend, you wouldn't want the scandal of having a relationship with someone who's already married plus look at the scenario you lost a friend and what would be your stand if this issue was scattered to other people. find someone who's available, less complication and less heartaches
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@sender621 (14894)
• United States
5 Apr 11
By entering into someone else's relationship you run the risk of not only losing the relationship you are after but the friendship as well. We can be taking on more than we are willing to lose.
@gelayagui98 (1336)
• Australia
5 Apr 11
Friendship plays a very important role in our life, the number and kinds of friends we have may create a considerable impact on how we get along in life. Just as a strong foundation forms a solid basis for a building, the relationships we have with others provide a social support structure that can give stability and strength. For those I've mentioned, I cannot destroy our friendship just because I have feeling for her husband, I can sacrifice my feeling but I can't sacrifice our friendship.
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@sender621 (14894)
• United States
5 Apr 11
Friendships should remain important to us. so much of our lives and love and trust go into those relationships. Sacrificing our feelings for another is just a small price to pay.
@starsailover (7829)
• Mexico
5 Apr 11
Hi sender: Definetly no. I thing that's dirty and bad. We are rational and we need to control our feelings. The more you think about this, the more you'll get obsessed. If something like this would happend to me I'll try to get over this and think about another girl. There are too many fish on the sea to be obsessed for a married woman, specially when this woman is my best friend's spouse. I really value my friendships, I have a little number of friends but they are real friends and I won't do anything that I know it wil destroy my friendship.
ALVARO
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@sender621 (14894)
• United States
5 Apr 11
Friendships are something to be valued. If we did obsess about having something too much that was not ours to have it could destroy not only the relationships we have but our lives as well.
@macayadann (1235)
• Philippines
5 Apr 11
If you think that the strong bond of your friendship is at stake better take a distance from your friend. True enough that you can not dictate the heart but it is just an organ inside of you that no matter what, you still have the feet to step backward towards the right path carrying the body where the heart lies and so the heart can do nothing if your mind and conscience dictates the sinless decision. Feel and see what will the outcome of your heart's choice would be while it is still early.