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					Originally Posted by shesus
					
				 
				Meeting someone is tough, but it will happen. I am a strong believer in a friendship before a relationship person. I think that it makes the romantic relationship that much stronger. 
			
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 This is a really important point to be made.  I won't pretend to know what works in asking some random female out, so I can't give advice on that, but I do want to mention that I think shesus is totally right about friendships before relationships.  Again, I can't pretend to have experience in the other way, but I've had nothing but success in creating friendships before "relationships."  I attribute the fact that all my relationships have been unusually long for whatever age I was to the fact that all my girlfriends were first my friends.  It really does make the relationship much stronger.