Look, twin flames don’t fit into neat boxes like ‘friends’ or ‘romantic partners’ or whatever label we try to force on them. I’ve learned through my own process that you can be anywhere on that spectrum at different points-sometimes in the same week, hell, sometimes in the same day.
What I do know, sitting in my own messy separation, is that the significance never goes away. You’ll always matter to them in ways that go beyond friendship, and they’ll always matter to you. That’s why the ‘just friends’ thing feels suffocating, like you said because you’re trying to shrink something huge into something manageable.
Can you stay friends forever and never be more? In divine timing, anything’s possible-but also, nothing is really permanent with twins. The connection shifts and evolves. What you are to each other today might not be what you are in six months.
Being ‘just friends’ with them felt like swallowing glass. But it was still better than them being completely gone. I know you’re suffocating when you hang out. I know the small talk feels like a sick joke when you’ve shared souls with this person.
But think about what you just said - you watch them laugh with other people, and at least you GET to watch them. At least you still see their face. At least when they text you normal stuff, your phone still lights up with their name. It keeps a thread connected between you two when everything else feels severed. Yeah, it hurts like hell. Yeah, every cell in your body wants more. But complete silence? Complete absence? That’s worse. Believe me on that. Some twins need total no contact to heal. But if you’re asking this question, if you’re still showing up when they text, maybe you’re like me. Maybe having them in your orbit, even at a painful distance, is what keeps you breathing.
I don’t know if the ‘just friends’ thing is forever or not. Right now it’s something, and something beats nothing when it comes to your twin.
As a runner who felt like I didn’t deserve any of this: yeah, you can technically be friends. You can slap that label on it and pretend that’s what it is. But the connection doesn’t care what you call it and you both kind of know it’s not just a friendship. Your soul knows who they are to you, and no amount of casual texting or forced small talk changes that.
I spent months trying to convince myself I could be around them platonically. The pull doesn’t just disappear because you’re scared or because you fucked things up. I don’t know if I was lying more to them or myself even trying.
Can you stay ‘just friends’ forever? I mean, people can stay in denial forever, so technically yes. But you already know your person at a soul level; they’ve seen your worst, and they’re still here. Trying to stuff that back into a friendship box when everything in you wants more? That’s just another form of running.
They insist we’re ‘better as friends’ while staring at me like that. I’m supposed to sit there and pretend this is normal friendship energy? Cool. No problem.
Watching them with other people and having to pretend everything’s normal when you’re dying inside? That sounds awful. You’re basically torturing yourself. If you’re clinging to whatever scraps of contact you can get, that’s probably a sign you need more distance, not less. The pain you’re feeling is pretty clear about what you actually need right now.
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Maybe stepping back completely would be better than constantly reopening the wound every time you see them.
Maybe it has worked in the short term for some and then that’s all they needed to get them through separation. I don’t think they can stay friends forever but maybe for a while.
Depends on circumstances (a preexisting relationship, for example). TFs are human… and therefore not infallible. Sometimes they succumb to distraction and temptation. Purposely ignoring that bond for ANY reason invariably results in a boatload of pain for one or both. That’s just how things work.
I had to create actual distance because every conversation just reinforced the attachment. The ‘just friends’ thing wasn’t working - I needed to detach and deal with my own stuff.
TFs are still human…and therefore not infallible. Sometimes they succumb to distraction and temptation, but the bond that exists between TFs…a bond that no less than The Universe itself set in place… will always be there. Purposely ignoring that bond for ANY reason invariably results in a boatload of pain for one or both. That’s just how things work.