I think real life love is preferable to fairy tales. The fairy tales never tell you what"happily ever after means"and they don't include the idea that perhaps having some not-happy moments with someone you love makes you love them on a deeper level (and perhaps more happy in the long run). I fell in love with my fiance when we were both just friends. He had his heart broken and I was suffering from a broken heart. Neither of us imagined that we'd ever have a girlfriend (for him) or boyfriend (for me) again.Because dating wasn't on the brain, we were able to be very open with each other. We relied on each other. Our friends saw us falling in love, but we both denied it. One day at a party someone suggested we kiss. We did and it clicked.We've been together for three years now (he proposed in Dec.).We've fallen out of the happily ever after face, dealt with life together, grown, been angry at each other, fallen in love with each other again, etc., etc., etc.I think that starting out as friends is fantastic. You have that friendship as the ground. You remember that your partner is your friend as well as your lover.
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