I love all of my friends, but not in a romantic or sexual way. It’s more like brotherly love–something like that.
But then again, I love just about everyone I know in some way or another.
Yes, I absolutely would. I’m single, and have no contact with my family, so without loving friendships I’d have a rather sad existence.
Not that I’d often express that feeling directly, for various reasons, some to do with being a manly man* and others to do with the potential for misinterpretation.
*Which is an act, and my good friends know that. I suspect plenty of other people know it as well, but it’s an act I rather enjoy.
Of course it’s love. Silly question.
Yep, I love my best friends.
Not really. My best friends are female (I’m a guy) but there’s always a little thread of separation distancing us, even though we often sign off over the telephone with an “I love you.”
I have only one close male friend – lots of pals, who’d help me out and vice versa – and that one real friend might be a kind of love because even though he just got married it doesn’t cause any real tension of alliances, I guess is one way to put it. But, and maybe this outs me as a sociopath, but I admit in my heart of hearts that maintaining my friendship with my collaborator and friend (who doesn’t live in my town) is in many ways an amusement to me. We just enjoy writing together and talking about books and movies. Then again, that’s not so different to a Barry White loove type relationship, I guess.
Yeah I’m a slight sociopath and I love my friends. I have a friend I have known for 25 years now and I would give him the shirt off my back (or the 2G’s I have given him in the last few months). He would dig the grave for the hooker I’d killed and I would do the same.