Dating Your Best Friend: Reasons For and Against

6. Con: You know the family and wish you didn’t

If your best friend’s folks are the ones you’d most dread being stranded on a desert island without of all the people in the known universe, your best choice might be to just ride out those feelings you have for your best friend and hope they fade away with the passage of time. That really does happen for some people and they often find themselves at a loss to explain how an attraction like that could have ever have developed once they look back on the whole experience a few months or years down the road.