NO NO NO!!
I AM NOT starting a thread about homosexuality AT ALL!!!
Just wanted to set that straight.
Many of us (myself included) have long-term, die-hard best (or very close) friends who are of the opposite gender...
So... my question is, do you perceive this as being a problem in a potential future relationship or in your marriage? Has it been a problem in the past? How did your significant other react to meeting your friends who were the same gender as they were? Have you had problems with jealousy, overprotectiveness, competition, etc?
I have a good friend Mark whom I've known since I was about 14 years old... (it's strange, my high school boyfriend was a friend of his--that's how I met him--and we broke up, but Mark and I always stayed friends, and only friends.) He's seen me through my relationships (and all the embarrassing things that came with them--he laughed at me a lot), but the guys I dated LOVED Mark.
In fact, I used to joke (and maybe it wasn't even a joke!) that some of the guys I dated stayed with me in order to have an excuse to go see Mark.
The reason? Mark builds, repairs, and works on computers for a living. At any given time, he'll have at least 4 different computers in his house... accessories, gadgets, latest techie devices and all... and he's a video game FIEND.
A "date" for me might go like this: (my significant other says) "Um, can we go to Mark's?" "Ok, I guess so." And they'd wind up playing some game for hours and hours and hours... and I'd watch TV in the next room.
Ah, the age of cyber romance.
How about all of you?
I AM NOT starting a thread about homosexuality AT ALL!!!
Just wanted to set that straight.
Many of us (myself included) have long-term, die-hard best (or very close) friends who are of the opposite gender...
So... my question is, do you perceive this as being a problem in a potential future relationship or in your marriage? Has it been a problem in the past? How did your significant other react to meeting your friends who were the same gender as they were? Have you had problems with jealousy, overprotectiveness, competition, etc?
I have a good friend Mark whom I've known since I was about 14 years old... (it's strange, my high school boyfriend was a friend of his--that's how I met him--and we broke up, but Mark and I always stayed friends, and only friends.) He's seen me through my relationships (and all the embarrassing things that came with them--he laughed at me a lot), but the guys I dated LOVED Mark.
In fact, I used to joke (and maybe it wasn't even a joke!) that some of the guys I dated stayed with me in order to have an excuse to go see Mark.
The reason? Mark builds, repairs, and works on computers for a living. At any given time, he'll have at least 4 different computers in his house... accessories, gadgets, latest techie devices and all... and he's a video game FIEND.
A "date" for me might go like this: (my significant other says) "Um, can we go to Mark's?" "Ok, I guess so." And they'd wind up playing some game for hours and hours and hours... and I'd watch TV in the next room.
Ah, the age of cyber romance.
How about all of you?