FRIENDSHIP LOVE CAN OFTEN TURN INTO ROMANTIC LOVE

The love of friendship is a milder type of love, as it does

not consume a person’s every waking moment with thoughts

of the other person. Friendship love can often turn into

romantic love, as it has many times throughout history, but the

birth of romantic love between friends will often kill the love of

friendship. In other words, friends who become romantic

lovers rarely can go back to being “just friends”. Why is it that

romantic love is so overpowering? The love of friendship can

be very strong, but it is the emotional intensity of romantic love

that forever changes the simplicity of the love between friends.

Friendship love does not have all the same guidelines

that romantic love seems to have. Each friend couple may

have a unique kind of love between each other. Girlfriends

may have a different friendship love for each other than a male

and female friend pair may have. The same goes for two male

friends. Because of societal guidelines that have been in

place for years, male-female friends may undergo a lot of

pressure from other friends and family to turn their friendship

love into romantic love. There is a line that friends may cross

over, and to know that line is to know the difference between

romantic love and friendship love.