Friendly and kind is different than BFFs. I also agree that friendship is a good foundation for a love relationship. I think the danger is in the only friendship thing. Most of the love relationships are developed along side the friendship aspect of the relationship, not in lieu of. But as I said, we see a lot of WASs that want to keep their LBS around as a friend. Playing family is one of the biggest forms of cake-eating that we see.
Like I said, just talk about it with your coach.
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