[meaghanchan]

Just to clarify my earlier response-- I'm now dating a guy who was a good friend of mine for 4 years, who for several of those years I hadn't thought of in a romantic way, and totally agree that friendships make the best foundations for romantic relationships-- but in the scenario given above (they both ask you to marry them, one from a position of 'platonic friend', the other from the position of 'romantic interest for past 2+years)... I wouldn't marry someone who was just a good friend- even a best friend- right off the bat. I would want to 'test the waters', so to speak, for a romantic relationship. Sometimes the dynamic changes in such a huge way that what is a great friendship makes a lousy romance. Sometimes it doesn't. But I don't think I would just break up with someone who I loved and cared about for 2+ years to be with a friend who had money.