Doesn't that go beyond "friend" and into tricky territory?
Nope. Loving is what a friend does. Sure, it will be "tricky", as you say, if the R is in disarray but that doesn't preclude either party from loving (Love in the action verb sense of the word).
Cheers ~~~
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