Do you love your best friend?

[Pulp501]

I rarely think of myself as loving someone. Besides my mom and grandma's and dogs there's not much else I'd say I love. I'm not sure if I really even love my dad and even though I'm bi it feels weird for me to think that I love a guy. Our mutual friend was talking about how I loved my best friend even though I wouldn't admit it. I haven't decided if I do but I was wondering if you do and if you tell gem? Do they tell you?

[Elysium]

Yes. My best friend is more affectionate than I am, so she's more comfortable and willing to say "I love you" than I am, but that doesn't mean that I don't. I will tell her on the rare occasion. And I think for my comfort, she refrains from saying it as much as she might like to. But I'm just hypothesizing.

[Shiny Moon]

Yes I do. She's really important to me, like a sister I guess. She knows I deeply lover and I know she feels the same way about me, and I'm happy with that.
But we don't spend the day saying "I love youuuu" to each other, I don't see the point.

[Just JT]

Yes I do, very much, I love him like a brother. We are very close, and would do anything for him, he's my best friend. I can't imagine life without him in my life

[Jinglebottom]

I don't have any genuine best friends in real life, as sad as that sounds.

[Pulp501]

I don't have any genuine best friends in real life, as sad as that sounds.

That's not sad, I went a long time with no friends at all. My Best friend now wouldn't say I'm his best friend either

[Just JT]

That's not sad, I went a long time with no friends at all. My Best friend now wouldn't say I'm his best friend either


Well, yeah, I mean jus because someone is your best, doesn't mean you will automatically be their best....I mean in a perfect world, that would be the nuts right?
But it's also not really realistic cause different people have different needs and different relationships with different people

[Jinglebottom]

That's not sad, I went a long time with no friends at all. My Best friend now wouldn't say I'm his best friend either
I do have friends (including one "best friend") don't get me wrong, but I don't feel like I can talk to him the way I would like to.

[hesaidhesaid]

Greatest lesson as a result of love:
"You know love when you're willing to fight for someone no matter what it takes."

I have a boyfriend who I can do that for and a lot of friends who I can do that for. You don't have to "love" a best friend in order to feel like fighting for them but the fact is that love requires a fight- no matter who it is with and no matter whether its romantic or not. When you can fight for someone, you'll do anything to be with them and you will do anything to have them in your life.

A final thought to leave you with: "I'm amazed by how everyone loves each other but no one "likes" each other." (Chbosky, The Perks of being a Wallflower"

If you love your best friend, surely you must at least like them...

[pjones]

i do love my best friend and i do tell him. he tells me too. i'm as close to him as i am my brother

[phuckphace]

it's sad that guy friends can't show genuine affection for one another anymore. now that our hypersexualized culture has to project sexual/homosexual connotations onto literally everything, we're really missing out.

prior to the sexual revolution, most teen guys spent 99% of their time around other guys, close female relatives notwithstanding. naturally then, it was very common for male friends to show affection to one another in ways that would be considered "GAY!" in 2015. if you visited a friend you would almost definitely end up sharing a (very small) bed. it was also common for an all-male group to go swimming in the nude...again, it wasn't "gay" or even the least bit sexual.

I bet when we think of the 1800s we think covered wagons and phonographs - true enough, but that bromance though.

[Melodic]

I don't have a best friend necessarily. I have friends. But not really a best friend. But I do love my friends!

[Zachary G]

The love I have for my best friend is not the love i have for my boyfriend or even my parents, but yes, I love him and have told him. He has told me this too and it has no affect on our relationship or anything like that.

[Emerald Dream]

Absolutely. I'd be completely lost without her, since I don't have that many close friends.

[LITTLEANGEL19]

Yes I love all my best friends and I know the feeling is mutual, we can tell each other anything in confidence. We are more like sisters :)

[Abhorrence]

I love my close friends, definitely. Without them I'd most likely be long dead. You really have to appreciate your friends in this life because good ones don't come about very often.

[Nate7]

Yes. My best friend and I have been through a lot. He is like my brother and I always tell him I love him just like I do with my family.

[LITTLEANGEL19]

I love my close friends, definitely. Without them I'd most likely be long dead. You really have to appreciate your friends in this life because good ones don't come about very often.

Hiya its good you have loyal friends to keep you going :) X

[justindw199]

I think it's perfectly normal for you to love your friend. I have one true friend outside of the internet (I know, it's sad), and she is like a sister to me. We both care about each other more than anything else. It's perfectly normal! :D

[Falcons_11]

I have 3 best friends and we have been close since 2nd. grade (well, 1 of them since 3rd. grade). We done almost everything together, like sleepovers, hanging around together, Enjoy basically the same sports, go to same school, etc. We are like the Three Musketeers..All For One and One For All. We do love each other but not in a romantic way. Just like I know they have my back and I have theirs. I hope we can stay that way for the rest of our lives.

[Pulp501]

I was feeling emotional today and I did tell him I loved him I'm not sure if he know I was being really serious and sincere

[Pat the Bunny]

Well, no, not really. I don't know if there is anything or one I really love. If anybody it's my sister though. Doesn't mean they aren't great friends (friends seem to get progressively better the older I get), just that I don't love them.

[Genos]

Gotta be honest: My friends are total jerks, still I love them.

[TroyH]

I'd die for my best friend in a heartbeat. I have a hard time reading how he feels about me, but I'd imagine it's fairly strongly since we've texted each other almost every day for nearly 3 years (I've lived at school for that length of time and now he lives at college as well but we see each other often in the summer). I like talking about the way I feel about anything, he does not. He has essentially said he loves me but never expressly.

[Bontigo Papi .]

I love all my 7 guy best friends, and my 4 girl brest friends, even though they can be a pain at most times.

I like to keep a variety because If shit hits the fan, you have other friends.

[Magenta]

I have two and I love them both to the ends of the earth. Okay, so one I'm also in love with but one way or another, I'm always going to love her regardless.