Time

Acquaintance. Friendship. Love. Relationship. Breakup...You know what connects all of these together? A bundle of confusion. Going through those steps can either be the most exciting thing or the most unnerving thing ever. There are those who love the hunt, the tease, the foreplay with delayed gratification as the ultimate goal. Some say that's a sign of maturity. Others are impatient and jump to conclusions and baseless judgments. The relationships that arise from the latter, most of the time, you mother probably has pantyhoses that have lasted longer. But can one honestly know when to break that barrier? Do we all really know when or if it is time to turn that acquaintance into a friendship or that friendship into a relationship? Odds are what you have with that person is probably the best relationship per se, you never had. So why must that next step be achieved? What we need to understand is that the people we get along with very well, we can stand them as friends because you can respect each other's differences as they don't generally affect one another directly. But once you cross that frontier, all those problems that this friend used to come to you for advice, they all involve you now. You start seeing this friend firsthand in a whole new light and you realize that these problems he or she used to come to you with, he may very well have caused them himself and odds are, you're no better yourself. You realize that your relationship fell back on reasons that would just not stand a chance. You confuse passion for a love that he could never give. Opposites attract they say, but they forgot to mention that these opposites cannot be entwined romantically because we are not simple electrical molecules. It's complicated and it is difficult. Afterwards, you would just expect the friend/lover switch to just turn. But think about this, this person was inside of you or you were inside of them. You really cannot just go back to high-fiving. It takes time... or to avoid it all, it's simple: DON'T FUCK YOUR FRIENDS!