Same situation as OP, and i don’t really wanna date my close friend anyway. But on the plus side friendzone is very comfortable, i’m not lonely despite living alone and only meet them occasionally, and i have cats as companion.
It’s not so much about dating close friends, but about friends of friends—people you don’t necessarily know, but who are not strangers, on account of your shared mutual friend. A friendly introduction by your mutual puts you a billion steps ahead of the rando at the coffee shop awkwardly trying to start up a conversation with you.
Same situation as OP, and i don’t really wanna date my close friend anyway. But on the plus side friendzone is very comfortable, i’m not lonely despite living alone and only meet them occasionally, and i have cats as companion.
It’s not so much about dating close friends, but about friends of friends—people you don’t necessarily know, but who are not strangers, on account of your shared mutual friend. A friendly introduction by your mutual puts you a billion steps ahead of the rando at the coffee shop awkwardly trying to start up a conversation with you.