What If You Want to Date Your Guy Friend? 3 Things You Should Know

Is there a special guy in your life who right at the moment is just a friend of yours, but you want to take things to another level with him? Do you spend time with him and kind of imagine what it would be like if he was your boyfriend? It's amazing to me how common these kinds of situations are, where a guy and a woman are friends, but one of them wants the relationship to be more than friendly. Stereotypically, it is thought of as being more common where the guy wants things to advance, but quite often, it turns out that the woman wants things to progress into something more.

If this is the kind of situation that you are in right now, where you have a guy friend who you want to be something more than a friend... keep reading. There are a few things that you should know before you decide to take a chance and try and get things moving to another level with him.

Here are 3 things that you should know if you want to take things to another level with a guy friend of yours:

1. You can almost bank on the probability that he has thought about dating you.

It's not considered to be the politically correct view on this subject, but it is actually kind of rare for a woman and a guy to truly be friends without one or the other harboring a secret crush on the other person. And to be honest, most guys have had at least some thoughts about dating or hooking up with some or all of their female friends. So, you should probably assume that on some level, he has thought about you in the way that you think about him.

2. Realize that trying to take things to the dating level will change the friendship forever.

This is a reality that you will have to deal with. If the two of you start dating and have a big argument two weeks later, you probably will not be able to stay friends. It can happen that quickly. So, before you decide to try and get him to think about dating you, ask yourself if it is more important to try that out or to keep him as a friend. Of course, you expect things to work out perfectly, but they may not.

3. Try to get a feel for what he thinks about you by making little suggestive comments.

If you are really unsure about whether or not he thinks of you in that way, you may want to "test" him out a little bit at first. You can do this by making little comments that are slightly suggestive and then see what his response is. For example, the two of you decide to hang out on a Friday night, you can say something like, "It's a date then." Say it in such a way that you can play it off as a joke if he does not seem responsive to this.

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