So. I don't really believe in being in love. Or so I thought. I've been denying my feelings for this one person for a while now because he's like my best friend. But am I being deluded? I feel like this is really authentic, like I have found this person I don't even have to try to love, and I would be happy just to sit with and do nothing with forever. I feel like, I'd be happy sitting in some dank parking lot with like broken glass everywhere and prostitutes walking around and blahblah whatever if he were with me. I just want to hear about "successful" love stories, experiences you've had that defy the cliches.

what a lovely post. so what's the deal? are you two just friends, are you going to do something about it?

i've never met anyone i'd be happy walking through glass with as long as we w- etc. but i don't discount finding someone, i don't think. not through any cosmic force or anything. just the purest happinesses i have ever known have been simply from being with certain people and knowing we are bound together in caterpillery love!

We've been friends for about half a year now, we've considered each other "best friends" since pretty much the third time we hung out and we have kissed,etc but we were both drunk and since then we've both made the decision to stop getting wasted because i have the real potential to be a full blown alcoholic and he has been there before.
It's just like...AGHAHGAHAGH. The most pure, simple, child-like love I've ever felt for someone. but our circumstances (no car, no job atm) are keeping us from developing a relationship. Which is sort of good because he isn't trying to rush anything at all, but we've both said the L-phrase before and it wasn't awkward at all, except for maybe the giddy rush of adrenaline I got from it. But that isn't awkward, is it? it's just happy. I think i will just be happy about this.

you should! you're lucky to have met someone you love so much and you know it go with it

Sounds lovely

Ooh I've been there but we were both too young and really too scared to acknowledge it, don't be scared, be happy!

you're just all out in love!

haha.
i'm so stupidly stupidly happy about this.

i ruined mine.

we're still friends. but we could have been amazing.

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Its never too late??

successful love stories that avoid cliches? i think they'd be hard to find. I think being in love makes everything feel cliche.

I met my boyfriend 4 and a half years ago, when i was on the rebound. He wanted me purely for sex, i wanted a rebound guy, but we realised that we were actually pretty perfect for each other. A year after we met, i moved away to uni and we were determined to make it work. It was damn hard, and we had a few 'breaks' but we always ended up professing undying love for each other and all that rot. I finished uni and came back and moved in with him. We have a great sex life, go on lots of 'dates' to keep things fresh and make sure we laugh at each other and try and be as open as possible. It's important to stay friends as well as lovers. After nearly 5 years, he's the one person who i want to call if i see something funny, or if i have a problem. I see our story as a successful one.

As for your friend, if you love him, enjoy it, and if he feels the same for you, enjoy it even more. Perhaps if you stop trying to define it, or stop seeing it as a problem then it will happen naturally.

Now for the cliche you've been waiting for, *drum roll* just follow your heart, my friend.