Once again, I am thinking about romancing my friends, about dating and getting to know my friends.
Because romancing potential platonic relationships is important too. And I know that sounds contradictory, I wish I had a better word to help differentiate. But the idea is really the same? When you meet someone new and want to be friends, you go out together, you exchange numbers or messaging apps, you chat, you send memes, you are finding out similar interests, are finding your footing with someone new.
And I don’t clarify what kind of date I’m on when people ask if we are “just friends”. I LOVE my friends. So much. They are just as important as other relationships to me. I don’t like the “just friends” thing and usually refuse to answer someone if they ask — unless both my friend and I feel unsafe.
So yes, once again. I’m asking people to date their friends, to woo their friends, to hold hands with their friends (if that’s a thing you both like to do), to go on trips with your friends, to think about life with your friends.
Friends are fucking awesome.