We have heard of best friends becoming lovers, and eventually life partners. And no one is going to complain, if one day you wake up to realize that you have fallen in love with your best friend. However, while making the transition from a natural, effortless and platonic friendship to a committed romantic liaison, you would need to take some extra time and put in some extra effort to cross over smoothly, failing which you fall out with each other and lose a good friendship in the process. Therefore, here are some things you need to do while moving on from being just friends to serious lovers.
Once you realize that your friendship is headed towards a romantic angle, have a serious chat with each other to ascertain is this is what you really want to do. If you have even the slightest apprehension of things working our properly, take some time off to think things over. Communicate your feelings openly, as this would be the only way to set things straight without leading to any misconceptions.
As friends, you may have varied interests, but may still be able to overlook them. You can’t say the same for lovers though. Would be able to keep things together in spite of the differences you did not find disturbing while you were friends? Remember, just because you were good friends does not mean you can be good lovers as well.
Getting physical in a romantic relationship may be a bit awkward at first, given the fact that you have been the best of friends for such a long time now. The sparks may fly instantly, or may take time to develop. So give it time, and be comfortable with each other before taking the relationship to the next level.
If you have a common set of friends, then it would be hard to hide your relationship from them for long. Then again, you would need to decide when and where to break the news to them. Once that’s done, you would need to mark a clear division between friend’s time and personal ‘us’ time. When with friends, you can hang out casually. However, you would need to set aside some personal time for yourselves without having your friends tag along wherever you go.
