I still want to be friends
by Ah, the words every boyfriend or girlfriend hates to hear, "I really just want to be friends right now."
Perhaps the most commonly used line to end a relationship...but, in reality does it ever work?
Can a guy and a girl be "just friends" after a break up?
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nope!
yeah, i agree.
well, lets go out then we can be just friends and see if it works for us...
haha, okay.....HEY EVERYONE...bozo and i are officially going out (but we're breaking up tomorrow, so spread it around quickly)
would u rather hear: i don't want to go out with you anymore
i dunno by experience, but it'd probably be weird.
umm, pete, I really just wann be freinds right now. really, it's not you, it's me
give me a tissue
o god, that is without a doubt the WORST line to ever hear.... a simple "lets just not date any more" is fine... equally bad is "i think we should c other people" cuz its obvious that the person speaking is ALREADY seeing other people... ew
ew isn't that what kelly did to zach with her boss at the max...i can't remember his name right now mel *hangs head in shame*
its jeff u retard.. how could u forget that?!
hahhaha i remember jeff!!
oh man i was thinking Jake *sighs* my life has lost it's meaning
yea.. u better just go kill urself now....
wow so much mean from such a little person
i think so. i've done it. in the past. a couple of good friends i have now. well, my only friends. since matt kelly's passing.
wow . . . this one is a little touchy for me . . . I think I've probably heard these words more than anyone EVER . . . and I can definitely say that it IS possible, since I'm still friends with almost all of my ex's . . . I usually just need some recovery time first, though . . . but of course, after the first 17 times, it gets a lot easier to switch from girl/boyfriend mode to friend mode. It's a gift that not many should learn, because it can make you quite jaded . . .
How old are you?
26 . . . but i'm not sure how that question applies to what I said . . . my numbers were all exaggerations, of course . . .
Oh..ok. Cause I was like wow..that's a lot of dating being done, are you broke now because of it?
absolutely . . . relationships cost a LOT of money . . . though I think I'm spending more now just hanging out with my friends all the time
doesnt work at all. you know youre lying when you say it. you just dont want to be mean. its just messy. its almost better if you just disappear and act like you never knew the person. that is what it will be like anyway.
you know what's always good...move to another country...and shut off your phone. and then be like "what, i told you about this! why didn't you come to my goodbye party, JERK!" that's a good thing to do.
i dont know. never heard this one before. i just always hear " darn it can we stop being friends and date already"... NO!
i'm going to marry ty...he promised me i could be his 3rd wife
he's only interested in you because you're short
that doesn't make any sense though, he told me that you were going to be wife number 2...so it can't be a short thing.
oh, look at that....i got a special instant message promoting me to wife number one...sorry dan, guess that means your wife number 3
i found this very funny and with the funny tag attatached to it i finally knew why.... its just funny.
I think it depends a lot on whether you started out as friends. If you just jump right into dating someone, without really being their friend first, then you can't go back to something that you never had. But if you were good friends with the person, I think that it would be a little bit easier to get that back after some time.
you know what i hate...when you're OBVIOUSLY dating someone...and you talk about it with the person...and they try to pretend you're just friends...WHY...WHY do people do that...i see some friends i have, they like eaach other, hang out every weekend, and try to hide that they like each other...stupid...
guy. i'm straight.
dude. you're so not. you drive a JEEP, for pete's sake
my sake? wat do i have to do with jeeps?
ahhh you are SOOO self centered...not EVERYTHING revolves around you, greek boy!
lol just jokey
i was talking to my friend the other day about this...this definatly happens alot more in the truth, the "fake dating". b/c when you're a witness there's so much more pressure when you're dating to get married and some dont want that on them, so they'll just say they're not dating..where as in the world...people dont really care so they'll just date and see what happens.
yeah..i love how you say "my friend" because it's obvious you only have one.
anyway, it's stupid. yes. and people will do it anyway. sometimes they do it with girls who are 16. that's just wrong.
it's, uh, never good to do it with girls who are sixteen..
i have to disagree bri . . .
well, stat, maybe you'd like to get passed around the cell block like a peace pipe. fish, we'll call you fish..
well, are the guys 16? or 25?...we'll evalute the degree of "wrongness". haha j/k i know what you mean.
btw did you sit on that bench all night last night? it had a danhill impression in it.
haha i raced courtney and KICKED HER BUTT! this weekend is gonna be SERIOUSLY rowdy. you better not go to aruba. i'm gonna stay at your house if you leave. in protest
noooooooo, she HAS to come to Aruba...we're all getting rowdy there :).... and Thai is in for a real treat...he's with 8 females between the ages of 17 and 26
sounds like a normal thursday night in the realm of PAD THAI. and please all have your periods now.. alright. no aunts visiting this week. hahhaahhaha
hahahahaha, wow
i'm not kidding.
haha no attitudes or i'm swimming off the island to the next one. but seriously. i can't wait.
haha, have fun stayin with mom, pop and sis crocevera..they'll enjoy your company. btw..."rowdy" you seriously sounded like chris gomez. :P
hahaha "rowdy" is a mix of chris gomez and cerrato after too much diet soda
oh please they are like we peed our names in the snow...rowdy
in your dreams danhill
haahah. some people i know when they get asked if they're dating say "we're friends with a future."
a few of my favorites are: "friends with expectations", "friends with benefits", and "special friends" - which all mean NOTHING really
i definetly friends with benefits means something.
perhaps so - but what? I'm just saying that in the end, they're all hiding something anyway . . . I'm just saying though . . .
well maybe if they are hiding it its because its not some persons business to know it. :P
Is it all right if all your friends have benefits?
yeah.... neither person want commitment but they each want what the others got and alot of it
A classic in my book was when two of my friends were asked, "are you guys together?" i believe their response was "we're seeing each other" or something like that. Of course I laughed hysterically because it was a question they always try to avoid, and someone just sprung it on them unannounced . . . but i'm pretty sure they're actually "dating" now . . . i'm sure they'll correct me if i'm wrong
yes, i do think girls and boys can be friends after a break up. but they need a good sized break before talking or hanging out and you definitely need to involve yourself in new friends of the opposite sex. get in the field. play ball. and if you both have significant others--then friendship should be pie! unless you or the other are being petty and sarcastically making comparisons and such. in which case: cut cords
CERRATO IS BACK! I"d like to say that Dan Hill mocks me in every comment. and can you stay friends after a break up? I have no idea, nobody said it was easy, cuz its such a shame for us to part
dude i don't mock you! i wasn't actually talking about you at all there...i was referring to some other lame poeple
"I just want to be friends" - Translation: That feeling I had about you when we first started going out has pretty much lost it's flavor - and I'm bored w/this relationship, so I'd like to break up - BUT, that doesn't mean I dislike you, so in efforts to hurt as little of your feelings as possible, I want to keep things friendly"
Good answer...did you copy that from the Young People Ask Book? Haha. You guys should look at the chapter about how to dress. There is a pic of a girl fighting with a mom about the outfit she is wearing, look at those clothes! I can't believe when I got that book, I actually thought that oufit was cool. Hahaha.
I was reflecting on how 80's that book was the other day . . . I actually remember the convention that we got it, and they made all the young people sit in the section behind home plate at the Vet - and it had that paragraph in the beginning of it just for us youths . . . come to find out, it was in ALL of them anyway . . .
I was too young, I think you had to be 10 to go sit in the special section. I was only 9. Dang it. I jealously saw my friends leave their parents to have a grand ole time unsupervised at the Vet.
hey at yankee stadium you had to be 13 and i was only 12!
Maybe it was 13 at the Vet too...I guess I wasn't paying attention.
i'm so old . . .
I remember this. I could have sworn we were at Nassau, I'm not 100% sure on that. but all I remember is this older girl next to me and my brother telling me to stop bending my pen because she said it was gonna explode. That would have been hilarious, cause were in the first row.
hmm...i remember yankee stadium on this, dean...maybe you went to nassau to be different, because you knew there would be a convention there, one day...heh
I was def. inside. maybe I was in another place altogether. I moved around a bit. maybe it was VT. but I could have sworn there were black people there. hmm...
i was only 9 too but my mom let me go anyway. i felt so special
wow, i dont rememeber that at all...i guess i was too young
hah yeah and the Youth book is totally 70s!
wow - the only thing i remember about THAT book was my dad trying to go over the chapter on sex with me, and me wanting to run outside and impale myself upon the nearest picket fence . . . kinda like the "masturbation" chapter in the YPA book
how can you forget the illustration about a towel that everyone wipes their hands on
hey, I remember that! that was really fun
Just shoot the opposing party with a potato gun. That oughta slow em' down.
yeap : ie: matt d & i... & Levi & i... but then again there are those who dont know how to be like that... sucks for them... and basically its their loss.