Dating : Have your early opposite-gender (or maybe same gender) friendships influenced your interests in partners?
Lately I’ve been noticing a lot of common themes between my early childhood friendships and my preference in partners. Almost all of my platonic early childhood female friends were either older than me, or at least were considerably more developed in maturity and intelligence (I’m aware this already sounds Freudian).
Thinking about it now, I’ve never dated or hooked up with someone younger than me. A lot of the people I see tend to work in education, management, or something STEM related. I’m wondering if it has anything to do with trying to recreate any of those positive lasting friendships into a partnership.
I’m curious what you guys have to say, I’d like to start a discussion about it.
Yup lol.
28m
My current bestfriend has been my bestfriend since 2008. I had a crush on her. But so did my other 2 friends. She really cute. But those other 2 friends got in their feelings or something. Cause when she didn’t like them back they was done being her friend. & I am just like damn that’s what we do now a days?
Anyway I have never dated her but I know I always liked her & just hanging around her. But I never realized how much until I started comparing how much fun I have just being around her vs when I was hanging around my girlfriends.