Some of the best love stories have started out as simple friendships. Transitioning from friends to lovers is a wonderful experience. The relationship has great potential since you already care about each other.
Research suggests roughly two-thirds of couples begin with friends and maintain a platonic relationship for long periods before sparking a romance.
Danu Anthony Stinson, an associate professor in the department of psychology at the University of Victoria, Canada, and her co-authors investigated the experience of nearly 1,900 university students and crowdsourced adults (including 677 who were married or in a common law partnership), all of whom were asked whether they were friends with their current romantic partner before they became romantically involved.
Most participants (68%) reported that their current or most recent romantic relationship began as a friendship. The rate of friends-first initiation was even higher among 20-somethings, with 85% of such couples saying their romance began as a friendship.
By any other name would smell as sweet.
名字代表什么？我们所称的玫瑰
换个名字还是一样芳香
My only love sprung from my only hate.
To early seen unknown and known too late.
我竟然为了我唯一仇恨的人而倾倒
当初不该遇到他 现在发现可是一切都太迟了
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
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