What makes us fall in love with someone romantically vs platonically?
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I’d die for my best friend, and love him as much as I love my mom and little sister.
I don’t think you “fall in love” with someone platonically. It comes from shared experiences over a long period of time as well as developing a unique, and unspoken level of bond. There’s no “contract” to be someone’s friend. You just end up best friends because you stick together.
Romantically speaking- it is finding that person that you are attracted to, but you have to enter a “contract” of sorts. You want that person in your life, but you both have to uphold the same levels of trust, respect, and mutual care that you have in your lifelong relationships with your family
in friends in an extremely short amount of time. This is why relationships often have growing pains.
Both platonic and romantic relationships involve the need for mutual companionship. But romantic relationships really hinge on a different kind of accelerated attraction and mutual trust that involves an extremely high emotional component that can make or break the relationship.
You can get into a relationship of sorts within a few weeks, you can’t find a best friend in that time. Much less love them like blood.
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