Let me start off by saying by no means do you HAVE to be friends first to have an amazing relationship,  however this is from my personal experience and I wouldn't have it any other way in my case. I love that I began as friends with my fiance when we were younger because I feel like being friends first creates a really strong base for your relationship,  my fiance knows things about me that make a world of difference in how he responds to me. In various situations if we hadn't been friends before he wouldn't understand how I was reacting to things. With my anxiety for example,  he's learned much more through our 4.5 years together but he knew a good amount beforehand as well. One example is how I used to eat in the kitchen at our church because all the people stressed me out. Sometimes he'd even bring me food so I wouldn't have to go get it. Because of seeing that and experiencing that in our friendship he knew recently exactly what w...