How to Date Your Best Friend

Video Transcript

"You draw more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. Now how do you date your best friend? This is Doctor Paul, author of Boomer Girls: A Boomer's Woman Guide to Men and Dating and host of Ask Doctor Paul. Honey draws more than vinegar. And if you already have a quote unquote honey of the opposite sex be it male or female, then you are already being drawn into this situation of dating your best friend. And that's a good thing. I think it makes both parties feel comfortable, especially if you open the lines of communication and say look, you have a lot of the qualities that I've been looking for in someone for a long time and you and I have talked about this because we are best friends. So if you're a woman talking to a man or a man talking to a woman, you can feel open about it, you can simply say to them look, it's really critical for you and me to have this talk. I think maybe you feel the same way. And if you do I want to hear about it. And even if we don't get into the romantic side of it, I think we can go on some dates and have a good time. And start with that. You never know. That other person may feel exactly the same way but did not want to bring it up. Happens a lot, I get callers who've said the best thing they ever did was to tell their best friend they really were interested in them and it worked out beautifully and now we're engaged or we're married or whatever. So give it a go. If that's how you feel, just tell it like it is. Look, life is short, you may as well enjoy it. Life is this time and this time only. Life is not a dress rehearsal. We're there now. This is Doctor Paul, may your fantasies of today be your realities of tomorrow."