best friend vs. boy friend Options

[LoST SouL]

my best friend is a guy and sometimes it seems like he acts like a boy friend around me ive asked a bunch of my other friends and they said that he is doing what a really close good brother type best friend does.. so now im confused... what is the difference between a best friend and a boy friend?

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for example... a lot of guys really just want ass from me and i would tell him the things they say to me [since i tell him EVERYTHING] and he would get really upset and say things like "i really want to them to say that to you in front of me so i could punch them"

[*x____duckii*]

What things does he do when he's around you?

[topsyturvy]

Best friends and boyfriends are basically the same, except with boyfriends there's romantic attraction.

[LoST SouL]

Best friends and boyfriends are basically the same, except with boyfriends there's romantic attraction.

what do you mean by romantic attraction?... like sex?

[topsyturvy]

what do you mean by romantic attraction?... like sex?

Yes, kind of. Romantic attraction is when you're attracted romantically.. When you want to kiss him, hold him, whisper sweet things to him and have him do the same to you.

[LoST SouL]

When you want to kiss him, hold him, whisper sweet things to him and have him do the same to you

there are times when i want to kiss him i want to hold him... yes im in love with him... and he don't like me that way.. but through it all he is still and always will be my best friend.... hes like a brother/father to me.. he means so much to me... even before i liked him/ fell in love with he has always been this type of person... we have always been this close.. i like him a lot but we still do not cross the "best friend line"

[CrazayChristian]

I'm a best friend to a girl, just like yours. And there is one big diffrence between us and a boyfriend.

We typically become your pseudo boyfriends. The sad thing is that we sometimes (most times, in my case)will end up liking the other. He might like you now.

On the other hand, we also become your pseudo big brother. We'll be pissed if someone is screwing around with you and will feel protective. You trust us, we trust you and now comes a responsability.

He cares for you, hang on to him, because not many guys will care.

[lit0chinagirl]

yes i agree with all of them. he seems to care very much for you so hold onto him. plus, who knows-- maybe you two will have a future romantically. if not, you'll always have each other through the thick and thin.

[PinkTrash]

my boyfriends are always my past best friends.. and the current one right now that i started to have a romantic attraction to; he started saying things like "i would punch that guy in his face if i were there" and just stuff that seems different from his regular lines..

[CrazayChristian]

It's been my experiance and knoledge that "best friends" will usually not become boyfriends, but this is usually because of:

1.The guy becomes slightly clingy

2.the guy becomes to be too honest, desposing his life and feelings

3. The guy usually finds himself in a position that a girl makes hima pseudo girlfriend, and he will be trusted so far as to where he doesn't seem desirable due to his transition from friend to "girl friend".

After a certain point, they are friends, and strictly friends.

But hey, it's only experiance an knoledge, what does that mean nowadays?

[technicolour]

He cares about you. I have this one guy friend that he'll make sure that if one of my boyfriends does something stupid, he[my boyfriend] will get hell. [i'm single now, but when i was going out with this one guy he would be there to make sure everything was alright.] He cares, hang on to him cause frankly, the world is shrinking of guys that really care.

[LoST SouL]

pseudo boyfriends.... i like thinkin about it tat way

[moralsdecayaway]

sounds like hes just really scared of commitment or something... just remember there is no such thing as a plutonic relationship.. eventually over time feelings have to either grow strong.. or become nothing.. nothing can ever just stay the same.. just wait and be patient.. hell come around eventually.. hopefully..

[BiGdRaGoN31]

i think hes juss bein nice, n bein a good frend, need to kno wut else he does though

[*jooleeah*]

I think he's just being a good friend. Until he does something like more romantic/sexual....I think he's just a good friend.

Don't let him go. I used to have a friend like that.

[*mipadi*]

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for example... a lot of guys really just want ass from me and i would tell him the things they say to me [since i tell him EVERYTHING] and he would get really upset and say things like "i really want to them to say that to you in front of me so i could punch them"

He probably just wants ass, too, but he's trying to get it through the nice-guy route.

Hm. Maybe that's the difference between a boyfriend and a best guy friend.

[Jorge]

I don't know, you should talk it over with him, show him how you really feel.

[LoST SouL]

I think he's just being a good friend.  Until he does something like more romantic/sexual....I think he's just a good friend.

what do you consider romantic sexual?