“Monica: Okay, everybody relax. This is not even a date. It’s just two people going out to dinner and not having s**. Chandler: Sounds like a date to me.”— Courtney Cox, Mathew Perry, Monica Geller, Courteney Cox, imdb.com
“I’ve realized that the right place doesn’t mean anything without the right people.”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“You’re my best friend and I want to spend the rest of my life with you.”— Brianne McDonald, thoughtcatalog.com
“All of my friends think you’re the girl I should marry. And I agree.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“In order to avoid these misplaced, tangled feelings, stop ‘hanging out.’ You are not supposed to be BFFs and then also have a no strings attached relationship. That’s just not possible! You have to take serious precautions to make sure your lives don’t intertwine beyond the physical!”— Riya Roy, newlovetimes.com
“Have many friends in common? Avoid being sex buddies with the person. You’ll end up spending a lot of time washing dirty linen in public if the cat gets out of the bag. Worse, if you have a frenemy, you could easily be the next topic for spicy gossip.”— Party Gal, idiva.com
“You adore your friends and family—so you'd never insult them for making minor mistakes. You want to have that same attitude with your body.”— Bianca Mendez, womenshealthmag.com
“You made your friend spill every detail of her last date. Nothing is off limits, because you demand (and need) to know everything: what foreplay was involved, which positions they tried, how long it lasted.”— Kenny Thapoung, womenshealthmag.com
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Your friends think of him as their friend, and his buddies consider you their buddy, too.”— Meredith Bodgas, glamour.com
“He will want to meet the people who are important in your life, and he will make efforts to get along with them. Someone who is thinking about a future together understands that if he wants you in his life, the people you care about will probably be around for a while too.”— Ben, thrutcher.com
“He encourages you to take a girls’ night out. The two of you have reached a level of maturity within your relationship that means you’re not following each other like puppy dogs.”— Ben, thrutcher.com
“When a guy wants to spend more time with married friends, it shows a slowing down from the single life and adopting a more settled lifestyle. If he wants you with him in those get-togethers, he is already (and probably sub-consciously) feeling out life being married to you.”— American Dating Society, asnamnat.org
“Has he introduced you to all of the people that are important to him? This includes best friends, coworkers, and family. If he’s not ashamed of your relationship and he’s making sure everyone knows you guys are an item, chances are you’ve got yourself a committed man that will be on his knee in not…”— Shannon Y., youqueen.com
“Give the gift of ‘being there’ instead of stuff. Give your time, your listening ear, your friendship to the people around you. Be there when your girlfriend gets dumped. Help a friend do yardwork. Take a stressed-out friend for a manicure.”— Kara Nesvig, thoughtcatalog.com
“You have friends and families whose lives will be totally different with your absence. You have people who love you and would do everything to protect you. You have people who truly value you. And I, a stranger, values you too. Whatever you are going through right now, the fact that you are a precio…”— Mariel Alvarez, thoughtcatalog.com