We were friends of friends that hung out in the same group. We knew of each other and became friends. We quickly became best friends and could lean on each other for anything. After a while of being friends we joked about " creating an application for significant others" to apply too. In discussing our requirements for this list, we realized that we both check off many boxes on the others list. Then it was like ... " wait a second, are you telling me that you are everything I want! Should we explore that?!" We decided to take a leap and see where a relationship would take us and we haven't looked back since !