When love and friendship coincide this is truly a blessed event

Friendship & Love

Lovers who are friends are more then lovers. This is about two people that will do anything for each other. The relationship has passed almost into the realm of a blood relative. Lucky are those who have developed such friendships.

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They should be as careful with them as if they are handling the most delicate of things. These relationships are rare and only exist between people who have an inherent soul connection. There are few people lucky enough to form this kind of relationship.

♥FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE♥

Whether Friendship or Love ~ remember when you give the KEY TO YOUR HEART to someone ~ make sure that his or her HEART doesn't get broken........

♥CHERISH THE KEY ~ CHERISH THEIR HEART ~

Platonic love is very much a part of any close friendship. But such a love doesn't always stay platonic. Sometimes it turns into passionate love. Crossing that line, between friendship and love, can be both beautiful and extremely difficult.

Love: A decision to put the needs of another before your own.

Friendship: An enjoyable bond with another with some common interest(s).

~ Two Hearts ~ One is Friendship ~ One is Love ~

~ DO THEY EVER MEET AS ONE ~

Both are so much related to each other. And both are so dissimilar! What are the differences between friendship and love? Is platonic friendship possible between persons of opposite sex? 

What is friendship? Why do we call a person our friend? When do we call someone a very good friend? If we care for a person, if we are always ready to help that person and if we share most of our thoughts with a person, they are our good friends. We can always count upon our good friends in an emergency. We are always sure that our friend will understand why we acted in a certain way. We need not explain anything to our very good friends. The friendship is so deep and the relationship is so intimate, that most of the things are automatically understood by our friends.

What about love? In a relationship of deep love, all the sharing that we discussed above are taken for granted. But love transcends all this. During love, we are attached with a particular person, while in friendship, one may have many friends. A loving relationship makes one so much attached to the other, that one gets pained if his/her beloved is hurt! Love also involves a physical element. Friendship does not have that. This is a vital difference. Nature gives us love so that the specie can go forward. Nature does not give us friendship.

Your heart beats will never increase in anticipation of meeting your friend. You will not lie awake at night thinking about your friend. You will not feel totally lost, if you don't meet your friend for a few days. You will not have dreams in your eyes thinking about your friend. But in love, you will do all this and much more. Indeed, there is no comparison between love and friendship.

~ When Friendship tunrs into LOVE ~

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

~ Friendships are essential to our Well-Being ~

Friendship is central to our well-being.  As humans we have a basic need for community, for the fellowship of others.  Friends help us grow, comfort us in times of need, laugh with us or help us laugh when we become too serious. Different types of friends help us explore the different needs in our life.  Every friendship gives us something unique and adds something special to our experience.

Friends offer us a close relationship of trust, understanding, communication, support, play, empathy, and loyalty.  Friends allow us to be ourselves and relax.  After spending time with friends, we should leave feeling good about ourselves.  Although there are exceptions to this rule, it should still be the rule and hard times the exception.  Friends make us glad that we are who we are.

The beauty of friendship is in the selection.  We are born into our families, but we select our friends.  So by this measure alone, our friendships are unique and special.  They are appreciated because we selected them to be part of our lives.  And in turn they selected us to be part of theirs.

Friendships require contact.  Absence does not make the friendship heart grow fonder.  It makes the friendship go away. So it’s important to spend time with our friends on a regular basis.  Luckily, there are a variety of ways to spend time with friends.

~ SIMPLY SPEAKING ~

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever........