In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone who is in love with their best friend but isn't sure if they should risk telling them.

Before former MTV VJ and activist Ananda Lewis passed, she texted her best friend Stephanie Elam, “we come in love and choose to leave it with love as well.” (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty ...

We often think of relationships as beginning through a chance meeting of strangers, but it turns out that being friends first is the most common (and desirable) pathway to love.

Our views on relationships, politics and lifestyle (love of travel, no kids etc.) are in complete alignment. I now realize that I am really in love with my best friend.

16. “Best friend isn’t a person; it’s a tier.” —Mindy Kaling 17. “Let us be elegant or die!” —Louisa May Alcott 18. “Love is friendship that has caught fire.” —Ann Landers 19.

Our views on relationships, politics and lifestyle (love of travel, no kids etc.) are in complete alignment. I now realize that I am really in love with my best friend.

I would love to spend some time with him on his pirate ship, Thousand Sunny, and meet his friends. Chloe Fan Chee-yan, 13, Pooi To Middle School: Matilda Wormwood.

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Introduction Self-love is not just an emotion, rather, it is a feeling that makes your daily life beautiful and worthwhile.

Summer in Ohio is full of gifts. Laura Johnston, cleveland.com Laura Johnston is on summer vacation, so she won’t have an Our Best Life column next week.