It's hard to change friendship into love but it's even harder to turn love into friendship.
Once you cross that line into love, it is often times best to let time run its pace, and return to the loved friend upon their request.
Patience is the hardest part. We get so accustomed to that life being a part of us - it is hard to let them go through the process of healing before we want to force them to be present. Absence is not a flatline, just an intermission.
I do believe lovers can return to friendship but it has to take a big love, understanding, tolerance, insight, and patience for one another. (and if we had all those things - maybe the love relationship wouldn't have failed) Thus why a bit of absence and thought on whether we are being selfish or self-seeking in forging the friendship is important.
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