My boyfriend started off as my friend. Except he was never in the friend zone.
I have three zones:
Friend zone - guys here are here to stay
Interested zone - this is where I put him because having immediate interest is called being a whore and you have to keep it in your pants.
Boyfriend zone - pretty self explanatory
I have a guy friend named Derek and I have a boyfriend named Jason. Derek and I hang out and he helped me with homework in high school. He's in my close group of friends. Derek is a cute kid. He has shaggy brown hair and brown eyes and is super nice. I know of a lot of girls who think he's to die for. But he's not my type and I'm not his.
My boyfriend, Jason, is who I met on vacation and was immediately attracted to. He is tall, athletic, has curly blond hair, blue eyes, and a really gumpy smile that makes me laugh. Not only is he physically attractive (to me) but he smells really good (no body spray used), is highly intelligent, and is outgoing.
All in all, the difference between a guy friend and a boyfriend can be summed up in attraction. However, it's not just skin deep for girls. I have to be attracted to your personality as well as your looks in order to qualify you as boyfriend material.
I have another guy friend, Ryan, who is, by all means, very attractive and very much my type physically, but his personality is far from compatible with mine. So he's forever in the friend zone.
I don't know if this helps, but there you go.
When we say our boyfriend is our best friend it means that we see him as our ultimate friend. Not just a lover that we kiss or hug and share intimate stuff with but also our companion who we share personal stuff with. In life we have best friends and then sometimes in relationships you find that a partner's best friend isn't necessarily their relationship partner but rather another friend. So when we say our boyfriend is our best friend we mean there is no other best friend, they are our best friend.
"what's the difference between a guy friend and your boyfriend?"
Boyfriend someone who we are in a relationship with and are committed to. A guy friend is just simply well, a male friend. We don't kiss or hug them or share intimate stuff with them as we would with a boyfriend.
"so do your boyfriend start off as your friend or do you skip the hanging out part and go into dating/romance?"
Depends. Sometimes it happens that you meet someone and start dating immediately, while other times it starts out as friends and then it grows to something more. It usually just happens and can't be helped cause love is mysterious and finds you when you sometimes don't even look.
i think boyfriends should start out as guy friends. that way, you know the relationship isn't based on physical attraction.
I'm never interested to just be a friend to a girl. Either I'm her boyfriend, or a fwb. In any case if I hang out with the girl I'm always having sex with her. I have no interest in having girl friends, I have guy friends, they are all I need friendship wise.
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Easy to sum it up; a guy friend is someone who I feel brotherly affection for, meaning that I look out for the best for in them, I know I can trust them with anything without the constant worry of looking "cool" or attractive. because believe it or not, most girls want to impress guys even if they aren't attracted to them. Whereas a boyfriend that is also a best friend, means that he's my lover but also my confidante. I have romantic feelings for him but our relationship has already passed the point where I can trust him with anything. Sometimes a boyfriend becomes a best friend after you've been with them for a long time. Or sometimes, the guy was already your best friend before you started dating. But then you started feeling an attraction on top of the friendship.
I see a lot of ideas about this... Personally, I don't plan on ever dating a single guy that I don't already have a close friendship with. How can we be compatible as a couple, if we don't already know we are compatible as friends? To me, there is no difference, besides the fact that a boyfriend is someone I've known longer and have an attraction to.
For me, that's the same as comparing my female friends to my boyfriend - apples and oranges.
I want to see my friends happy and I enjoy hanging out with them and keeping up with their lives, but I don't want them sexually or romantically. I don't want to cuddle with them, I don't want to kiss them or sleep with them, I don't feel like they're mine and I'm theirs... it's friendly and more of a goofy relationship.
With a boyfriend, they are a best friend too, but one I want to show physical affection towards, one I feel is MY man, and I'm HIS woman. I want him happy WITH ME, and I want romance and sexual passion from him.
They're completely different emotional connections, in my opinion. I've personally never fallen for a friend, and a friend has never fallen for me.
I think it varies from relationship to relationship. I mean... my boyfriend is my best friend. But I think what defines that is that our relationship isn't purely sexual. That's part of it, but there is a lot of caring, friendship, and trust involved as well. It's got to be a combination of sexual attraction, trust, romance, and friendship for that kind of relationship to work.
This also makes it harder for me to see any other guys (or girls for that matter) as best friends though. There isn't anyone else that I could have this same kind of bond with. It's deeper than anything that you'll have with anyone else, and you'll know when you have it.
My boyfriend is someone who I love to hang with and have sex with and have romantic feelings for. My guy friend is someone who is fun to hang with. My guy friends are my guy friends because I am not and never will be attracted to them in any physical or romantic way. They are great to be around but there are things about them that make it so I will never be able to feel anything more than friendship for them. Sometimes they are physically unappealing, sometimes they are douchy, not douchy enough to not be friends but certainly douchy enough to never want to date them. Sometimes it's that they are ignorant but not ignorant but not ignorant enough to hang with. A lot of times they think they are nice guys but they really are not even close to being nice guys. You get the idea. Good enough for friendship but not good enough to date.
Well... the obvious difference between the two is that I am in a committed relationship with my boyfriend and I am also in love with him. I am not in love with my guys friends. My boyfriend did start out as my guy friend. We were always sort of odd friends though... we were way touchier and cuddlier then I was with any of my other guy friends. It just developed into a relationship. There is a stage were your more then friends but not quite lovers and I am very rarely in that stage with anyone, when I do enter into that stage with a guy friend, He usually becomes my boyfriend.
Well a boy who is a friend you don't have those romantic feelings towards them but your boyfriend you do. The only difference is the way you feel love towards them. A boyfriend is more of a "I'm -going -to- strip -you- right- now -and -sex -you- up -then -whisper- sweet -things -in -your -ear" type of love while a guy who is a friend is more of a brotherly love.
your best guy friend is the one who you are interested in his personality and you can get along very well no matter what.
the best possible boyfriend is the one who starts as your best friend but gradually you became interested to each other physically and emotionally.
I think that for these people who have boyfriend/best friend all wrapped up into one there is no separation between hanging out and romance.
You will just know if this happens to you, you feel romantic and in love AND like best friends all a the same time.
Very fortunate to find that.
My boyfriend started as my friend, later we proceeded to date.
Guy friend is someone I can talk to
Boyfriend is someone I can talk to and fall in love with, best friends with chemistry :)
I think boyfriends turn into best friends. You like each other, date, become boyfriend and girlfriend, and from spending time with each other your become really good friends.
guy friend: Brother material, not my type, just no connection/not attracted
boyfriend: the opposite of guy friend and then some
We started off as friends, then got together after two years.
The attraction was always there though, underneath the friendship, and that's the difference between a guy friend and a guy friend that can become a boyfriend.
Initially: Attraction. Eventually: Profound level of intimacy.
I talk about my boyfriend with my guy friend.
I don't have my boyfriend over for the night. I will have a bunch of guy friends and a girl friend over for the night though.
My guy friend is the guy I hang out with and get the latest info on geek stuff from. My boyfriend is the guy I make out with on a regular basis.
I'm not attracted to my guy friends, that's why they're just friends.
a best friend, you can be open with you and you can say the stupidest things to them and they won't be like da fuq.
Guy friends don't stick their penises in the girl's vagina.
Boyfriends stick their penises in the girl's vagina.
I have sex with my boyfriend. I don't necessarily have sex with my guy friends.
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