Thanks for being a special friend this year

A special friend doesn't mean that the two should be dating. Well, I have been close to a former classmate lately and it is because he helps me with my online business. He supplies me with everything that I need. We have been actually in contact since 2009 or 2010. But just last year, we have become closer coz of business. We do not meet actually. We just exchange text messages and call each other sometimes. But just before Christmas, he told me that he treats me as a special friend. Well, I was happy that he told me about it coz he gets to disclose to me if he has problems. And so I thought that maybe I do give him helpful advice. But the next message he sent was he said that he thinks he is falling for me. I honestly told him that I do not feel the same way and he said he respects it. We're both married! No can do! And so what I m just trying to say is, a special friend could mean that a person may treat you as such coz you make an extra effort to be with him/her in helping out with a problem that he/she has shared with you and that he/she trusts you a lot.

Wow, I've never assumed that I was talking about something serious from a romantic standpoint when I say that someone is my special friend. If that was the case, then I've been referring to several of my friends in the wrong way for a while now. With that said, I have used the term to refer to the friends that I've had in my life that I've been more dependent on. I know now that I might be wrong, but I don't feel like it would be fair to just refer to those people as just being friends of mine.

Thanks a ton for sharing this discussion. Well yes u are absolutely right, even the same thing has happened with me many times. Whenever i have mentioned the word special friend i have always got a weird reply from others. They start suspecting me and keep pulling my legs all the time which i feel to some extent is pointless. I think it is always better to avoid such conversations and if its exceeds a limit then we should intervene and clear the air. What say?

I have several special friends that are male and my age and we are nothing more than friends who talk on the phone a lot. There is nothing that will elevate the friendship to more than that. I am happily divorced and they have neither one been married. I also have a female friend who is gay and a lot of people think that I may be gay because I do a lot of things with her when I'm in her town. We could be considered special friends, too, I guess, because we have known each other for about 7 years. I'm not gay, but I am her friend. I don't know what special friend 160 up, 65 down means, though. Do you?