This troper's best friend and herself could be mistaken for a couple by the general masses from how much we cling to each other. We're both female, and we're also VitriolicBestBuds.

Sounds a lot like this troper and one of her best friends (two years younger than me). Sadly, she's moved to [[strike:Melbourne]] South Australia... but we still talk to each other. We even call each other "sis". That's how close we are. And her mum even thinks of me as part of her family!

This troper and her best friend are this, calling each other sis, constantly fighting and generally acting like sisters, to the point were we could probably navigate each other's houses blindfolded.

Proof that I, Mr.Cales, can take anything BeyondTheImpossible- I have two HeterosexualLifePartners. One is a heterosexual guy who is my best friend despite his repeated attempts to date my sister. The other one is not only gay, but in a very happy relationship with another one of my friends. I may be the only person on the planet with a HeterosexualLifePartner where one of the partners is gay, but not gay for ''the other partner''.

Mr. Cales, you are not the only one. I am gay, but I'm not interested in my HLP. At. All.

Don't forget Messrs Fry and Laurie. Just sayin'.

Me and my dearest friend certainly qualify. The only reason we're NOT mistaken for gay is because of our dressing and respective ages-- We don't cut our hair or wear pants, and she has two grandkids and I'm an atypical tween! Oh: I have several HLPs! and yes, I... am associated with the gayness.

Add this troper and his best friend to the list. We've known each other since the 5th grade, and then I found out I was bisexual in 9th grade, mainly through being attracted to him. After a rather awkward year, we both came to terms with the situation, and have remained close friends for going on 9 years now.

Right with you Mr. Cales. My HeterosexualLifePartner is gay while I'm not. MistakenForGay has become sort of a Running Gag now, but it gets tiresome after a while. Doesn't help much that people have noticed it's a bit of a parasitic relationship.

This troper, a high school senior, has had something of a love triangle going with two HeterosexualLifePartners since grade 9. One of them became really nasty with her after she started getting close to the other as well. Did she mention they are also both very androgynous?

This troper has a tried and tested HLP. We met when we were eleven, and have stuck together ever since, although as we both like women (she's gay, I'm bisexual) we did date-and then decided we preferred being HLPs. Been like that ever since, and I couldn't wish for a better friend.

This Troper's 16-year-old brother and his best friend have been this way since the first grade. They've stuck together through thick and thin. What makes their friendship all the more touching is that my brother has Asperger's Syndrome (a mild version of autism) and his best friend has ADHD. They still create wacky scenarios with their ''{{Bionicle}}'' action figures and make stop-action films together. They're sort of like J. D. and Turk meets Hiro and Ando.

I had a Heterosexual Life Partner from freshman to junior year of high school, but then she fell into a deep depression, never received treatment, and refused to hang out with me anymore. I've moved on since then, but I haven't found another one yet.

This troper has had one for almost five years, now that most of his other friends have been filtered into acquaintances over time. His other (remaining) friends are good as well, but not quite as much as the HLP.

This male troper has a female hetero lifemate.

This troper is making her Hetero Life Partner official - she identifies as lesbian but is marrying a hetero man. For life.

I'm deeply curious abou that. How do you make that work without worries like this?

It's really more like this comic (NSFW).

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Granted, the gent involved is asexual, and knows I'll have girlfriends, but if we don't find anyone else after a few years, we're gonna get hitched. Yay healthcare benefits and tax credits.

That is epic amounts of awesome. I commend you.

This troper has a friend she has known since kindergarten when we used to pretend to be spies out to kill Mary Kate and Ashley Olson... that was fun. We've done many crazy things since...

Such as get each other addicted to TV Tropes? I can't be positive, but I'm pretty sure I'm the other half of that HLP duo.

Two of my friends are exactly like this. But I'm just a lonely soul.

Are you my other personality, by any chance?

This troper has a Hetero Life Partner- multiples, actually. It's a tight-knit fraternity/sorority group, and an outsider would swear we were all in a polyamorous relationship (you can look that last up)... but we're not. We're just Hetero Life Partners. What makes it more amusing is that this troper happens to be a reverend.

This troper and his best friend are like this (and Those Two Guys to other people); it has gone to the point that their classmates are surprised whenever they aren't together.

This troper and her best friend have been like this for 4 years and counting. We've even joked about wanting our kids to get married so we'd be family officially. It's even gotten to the point where our teachers commonly use the other's name when referring to one us because we're always together, despite not being in a single on of each other's classes.

This Troper and his best friend have been together since early high school, which is over 10 years. We pretty much do everything together, from going to the movies, to going on overseas holidays. We also hold pretty much everything we own in common and would be prepared to do pretty much anything for each other. And yes, we have been MistakenForGay.

This troper's friends play up the fact that they are heterosexual life partners (I mentioned the term to them) cause they have a lot to bond over. Only one of them is actually straight, though (The other is bi)

That's not me and my roommate, by any chance, is it? Well, we knew the term from Kevin Smith before we met, but still. I suspect that people seeing us out in the world wonder "Gay, or brothers?"

No such luck, man. They're girls. And in case you're wondering: Not really that hot-looking. Although I did know two relatively hot ones when I was 12, and I was trying to date one of them.

This troper keeps loose communication with a friend he moved away from, but flies in to see him and other friends. While we don't particularly talk much over IM or phone, the moment we see each other it's straight to doing everything together and just barely crossing the line into HoYay. We both solemnly admit that we'd go gay for each other in a heartbeat if we were all we had (Although this troper makes a point of killing the mood by adding "if he were more attractive" in the same sentence).

This troper's younger brother gained one of these within the first week we moved to the town we've lived in for 12 years now (we've both since graduated school). In fact, he and said friend (who has cerebral palsy and is the coolest kid I've had the pleasure of knowing) are so close that more than a few times they've been accused of being more than friends by our older brothers. However, all evidence points to a case of HLPs. For now.

Personally, I believe that these are the best friendships you can ever have. Incidentally, I've had this with three different guys. The first moved across the country for reasons unrelated to me, the second seems to be slightly creeped out and is shifting away from full-on HetrosexualLifePartner, and the third is an utterly straight example.

The perfect term for This Troper and the guy he's known since they were both six. Before I got into Kevin Smiths Jay & Silent Bob movies, I just told people we were best friends, now were Hetero Life-mates, or Non-blood brothers.

This Troper and his best friend of 4 years and counting. Before we had even met, teachers and friends have been known to confuse our names. We consider each other brothers, and this Troper was even the first person he came to see as soon as he arrived home for a visit from College. We've made the "sworn brother" jokes ''ad nauseum''. At one point, we were even making jokes about a "rivalry" when it came to light that my favourite ''DeathNote'' character was "L" and his was Kira. Now it's entered a new level since he uses a ''Kingdom Hearts II'' Riku avatar, and I use... Roxas. Incedentally, this Troper seems to attract these kinds of friendships. Notable examples would be his last best friend, as well as several people won over via Defeat Means Friendship

In this Troper's case, she's still very close to a girl she met in preschool. We were classmates up until I skipped a grade, but we went to the same school the whole time (and now attend the same high school). She's more like a sister to me than a friend. ...If you consider that we took showers together when we were 6, this could descend into some LesYay, but this Troper's a straight female who's too occupied with 12th grade for any romance at all anyway.

This troper's and her best friend for 3.5 years and counting are like this. We're together constantly, to the point where teachers have been known to call us by each other's names despite not having ANY classes together, we share EVERYTHING with each other, we're never angry at each other (seriously, it's weird, we've never fought EVER), we invade each other's personal space (she's got space issues, but I'm the exception), and we've been MistakenForGay a LOT lately. One friend even said, "Just go get married already! It's not like it'd be any different!" Neither of us have any attraction to each other, me being straight and her being asexual.

This troper and his best friend of five years have been called Turk and JD on multiple occaisions, despite neither of us being black.

So...you're exactly like Turk and JD?

This troper has an interesting sort of thing going on here... involving four girls. This troper has a HLP that's in her grade; we very much have a {{red oni blue oni}} thing going on, and we're both completely straight. We have two friends in the grade above us, who have a very, very very very similar situation, down to the red oni blue oni thing. Us two blue onis are often mistaken for sisters- same hair color, bra size, and perversion. Our HLPs/Red onis are mistaken for sisters as well; they have a similar sense of style, both artistic and clothing-wise, and are both plagued by the same 'issue'. Curiously enough, each red/blue oni pair are HLPs- I guess we needed balance.

This Tropette and most of her friends. We can often be heard saying "I love you...(beat)... In a totally platonic friendship way."

This troper has two friends, Kaiti and Kasey, who have been best friends for the past three years. They're so close they have no problem kissing each other and groping each other while completely nude, yet they're both completely hetero, never get turned on by any of that, and Kaiti has had a steady boyfriend since June of 2008. They've even pretended to be lovers to keep guys from hitting on them.

This troper has several friends that could qualify as heterosexual life partners. A most hilarious irony is one of them is gay, which leads to all sorts of speculation at times.

This troper has similar situation only he's the gay one in all of them. Does it still count as Hetero Life Partners if one partner isn't exactly hetero but doesn't harbour any romantic or sexual feelings towards their partner or is this some strange permutation of the Fag Stag relationship? Or better yet, both.

This troper and her best friend of four years are a MixAndMatch of PlatonicLifePartners and HeterosexualLifePartners (he's gay). We're so intensely close he's spoiled me for being anyone's girlfriend. His mother loves me, and if it weren't for the huge pre-college fight we'd almost certainly have had withdrawal symptoms. I refuse to let him date anyone who would do less for him than I would... and since I'd go through hell and back and drive across the country without stopping to get to him if he needed me, that's a pretty high standard.

Except for the mother thing, you have essentially just described this troper and her GayBestFriend. Our minds have officially been blown by the fact that we've known each other for half our lives. We once got each other the exact same gift for Christmas, and he's even been to ''my'' family reunions. Although neither of us has kids, it's a sure bet that if we do, the other ''will'' have Honorary Uncle/Aunt status. Luckily, his boyfriend is a nice, nerdy man... But if he ''ever'' does ANYTHING out of line...

Is it just me, or do we need an official trope for this sort of thing?

I should think we do, considering I'm in the same situation.

This troper and his best friend/roommate are basically ''homosexual'' HeterosexualLifePartners. We've lived together for nine years, will probably continue doing so indefinitely, and have no romantic or sexual interest in one another. (Actually this troper gets kind of insulted when people assume we're together -- "Excuse me, I have been out for eleven years now, if he were my boyfriend I would say so.")

This troper had a best friend since kindergarten, and we were ''extremely close''. We were even in every class... Until 4th grade, when I got into the top class. Also,in 5th grade, I was best friends with a ''boy''. We were so close, we even tried (and failed) to write, draw,and sell a comic book series. Even to this day, we are friends... But, then again, this troper is ''pansexual'' not hetrosexual.

This troper and her HLP met in the sixth grade. Now she's in her second year of college and we're living together. We even introduce each other as "my heterosexual life partner".

This troper has two HeterosexualLifePartners that don't know each other and have never met, though I believe that they've seen each other. Once. One is more like a brother than anything, since I've known him since we were four (we're both 22 now) and though we don't see each other as much as we used to, we haven't grown distant in the least. The other is my college best friend, who shares my perverted sense of humor, unbelievably geeky interests, and tolerates my caustic sarcasm (not something many people put up with). We've been MistakenForGay a couple times, and my girlfriend keeps insisting that we actually are.

This troper is getting there with an RP buddy, tempered I'm sure only by the fact we only talk online a couple days a week. But I wouldn't be surprised if we remain best friends forever now, considering some of the situations we've been through and talked about. By the way, all of this was caused by our ''characters'' becoming HeterosexualLifePartners in the multi-fandom LJ RP they're in. The characters? Bass and Conan}} Kaito. We're not sure how it happened either. Aside from this, I have a true HLP with another girl, to the point where our "relationship" has been joked on by my dad. Maybe I just attract these sorts of bonds.

Oh, thank goodness, I thought it was just ''me'' that had one of those. My and RP buddy have never spoken directly, seen pictures of each other, or even gone and exchanged full names. But we've been together and posting, even after the RP disbanded, for nearly five years now.

Blazing Frith, thought I was the only one! We met properly New Year's Day, 2010. He was so easy to talk to! I now call him Kitten on a regular basis and consider him the most important person in my life, next to God. He's not on so much anymore, but when he is, it's like nothing's changed....*happy sigh*

This troper met her heterosexual life partner freshman year of high school. Complete strangers have stopped us in the halls to clarify the extent of our relationship.

In high school, I was so close to my best friend that when we publicly "broke up", other classmates tried to get us back together, like kids in a sitcom trying to stop their parents from getting a divorce. (It worked)

This troper's mom has one of these. They've been together since middle school. The best friend is practically this troper's aunt (and he likes her better than his real aunts, anyway). This troper suspects that if said best friend were male, his parents would have never met.

This Troper has several HeterosexualLifePartners. Two of them have formed a Heterosexual Life Triad with her. Except she's not sure if that particular group really counts, because she plays a silent, unknown version of UnluckyChildhoodFriend to one of them. But it really doesn't count as anything else... [=* head-desk* =] Whatever.

That sounds a lot like what happened with This (female) Troper's girlfriend--she considered herself my UnluckyChildhoodFriend, and admitted so to me a full 7 months after coming out. Again: girlfriend. Worked out pretty well. Strangely yet hilariously, we are never MistakenForGay.

This Troper was surprised last year, when, attending a end-of-the-year barbecue, she was asked where her boyfriend was. It took her a second to get over the surprise and figure out who they meant.

This troper and his cousin are HeterosexualLifePartners, as this troper was never one for friends growing up (and he was never allowed to hang out with the few I did have outside his own house anyway). Although with all the odd memes and offensive humor they have between each other, it's probably for the best. As for adventures, they don't really get into that many, being fat, lazy bastards and all, but they play video games online almost every day, and he usually comes over on Saturday to order some pizza, drink all this troper's Pepsi and play more video games while this troper's parents go see a movie. The two also plan to one day travel back in time. Whenever some kind of problem comes along they usually say that they'll "fix it when we travel back in time". Recent findings (apparent clues left by our future selves in the past for our present selves proving we will actually go back in time one day so that our present selves don't lose hope and forget about it) have led them to believe that the FooFighters play a very important key role in the entire crazy plan.

This Troper's HeterosexualLifePartner will soon be saying goodbye since I will be moving across country for University. We've been through thick and thin together for 5 years. Living under the same roof and helping eachother through each others tough times. Always bouncing ideas off eachother and running away from the scene when things go bad. July 2009 will be a sad month!

Do siblings count? This troper and her sister are kind of close... no, not 'that' close. At the moment, we're so closely knit, I just can't see either of us moving away from the other in the near future... and of course we're bound by several common interests.

Your family sounds just like mine.

If family counts, this little Troper has been HLPs with her big sis long enough that we're now might as well be each other's common-law wives. Ever since I was fifteen and she was seventeen, we've clicked, and though we've had fights and weird spells, we've remained partners. We work together, dance with each other, bake each other little cakes -- I even feel oddly comfortable sending her boyfriend valentines. Even though she's had boyfriends the whole time we've been friends and we still have other family around, no one has ever been closer to either of us. We've even been MistakenForGay, as we're practically inseparable. It's weird to think about it sometimes how were like this old, boring married couple. But I don't foresee a divorce anytime so, so I guess it's fine.

This Troper is literally missing his HLP's college graduation by sitting here editing this page. He CANNOT bring himself to go back to it because of how depressed he is.

This Troper's Heterosexual Life Patnership has managed to keep going despite being on other sides of the Atlantic Ocean. It's been almost two years and we send at least two emails every day.

This troper and their best friend would seem to be PlatonicLifePartners... Except both of us are extremely androgynous, asexual bordering on bisexual, and have essentially done everything except meet in real person.

Hello, me and every longterm friend I've ever had.

This troper will join the choir. I have several(3-4) Heterosexual Life Partners, one of which I have known from a 7 year old, and he constantly tells me how great of a buddy I am when he's drunk . One is a classic nerd whom I met in the Vocational School and one is Indian, adopted here when he was a wee baby. Him and I constantly joke about the potential HoYay that would happen if we weren't, you know, heterosexual. I don't exactly call them every day and the Indian dude I see...maybe every 3 months, but we're still fast friends. So yeah, could be worse.

This Troper has known her Heterosexual Life Partner since freshman year of high school and it's been 9 years so far. The friend has actually had an argument with a boyfriend over whether she was cheating on him with me...so yeah. I suspect even out mothers think something is up despite the fact we're both straight. There's a reason I tell her we need boyfriends.

This Troper has an interesting subversion: she's a female and her Heterosexual Life Partner is not so straight after all, and came onto her after knowing each other for over half our lives.

This female troper's Heterosexual Life Partner is a guy who acts very gay, but is not actually homosexual, but neither of us have feelings for each other and our parents are comfortable with letting us have sleepovers. In each other's beds. I promise, there's nothing. The usual conversation goes like "Oh, he's not your boyfriend? Are you sure? Are you really sure? Oh, then he's gay."

This troper's bromance is on the verge of breaking up over money issues.

This troper has had a freind ever since meeting her the day she moved into her current house when she was in kindergarden. Unlike most freinds who've moved away or we've just grown apart as the school opinion (as I'm convinced a large part of the student population was a hive mind) of me lowered. There was a year were I didn't see her very often as she had become so dissimilar from me that it was just hard to be around her. And currently we see each other often and are probably thought to be lesbians by many, though part of that is neather of us are hetrosexual, we just don't like each other.

This straight troper and her HLP have been together since kindergarten. It's been 9 years since we first met, and we are still very close, calling each other every time we can. We attended the same elementary school for K-2, both upgraded to a GATE school in 3-6, and are now in our last year of middle school. We're shooting for a world record. :)

This troper and her good friend were like this for a long time despite a significant age difference, to the point of being commonly mistaken for together. Admittedly, we did play that part up for our own amusement. Said friend is sadly passed on now, but has left only cherished memories.

This troper and her (female) best friend are like this despite being in different schools. We don't really txt or email anyone but each other, and throw around phrases such as i love you in a completely platonic way, and many are surprised to find out i let her hug me despite hating being touched (in my defense though she totally cons me into it).

This troper met her HLP in fifth grade, and we were inseperable within a week. She has now moved roughly 9 hours' drive away, but we IM for 2-3 hours (at least), five times a week (at least). We also see each other for roughly one week every six months. We've never had an argument, crush on generally the same fictional characters and there's nothing that happens to one that the other doesn't know mere hours later. This shows no sign of ending as of yet. We're even planning a two-year overseas trip.

Me and my best friend have been like brothers for seven years now. The tenth anniversary of our friendship overlaps with our graduating year, after which we plan to spend two weeks pretending to be homeless to see what it's like and then crossing the country together in a van. This is a guy I'd feel comfortable introducing to my future kids as their uncle. I am also PlatonicLifePartners close friend of mine, who I've known since first grade.

My best friend and I for six years. We share almost all the same interest, finish each other's sentences, and even moving to another state can't keep us apart for more than a month.

One of my physics teachers seems to be forming such a theory about me and one of my friends- we aren't quite as close as most of the examples (I'd say he's my best friend, he's unsure due to being more sociable- I'm geekier...), but the fact that we always sit together and high-five at (apparently) random intervals throughout all physics lessons amuses her. Naturally, we got some Drama to play up when we were both going for the same part in the school play...

This troper has a few Heterosexual Life Partners, despite being pansexual herself (and two of said Life Partners not being straight themselves). This troper has known one since they were in first grade and kindergarten respectively, and they've gone to school together for all but 1 1/2 years (this troper is in 12th grade and HLP is in 11th). Another is around a week older than this troper and they have never met in real life, but are going to get married with plastic rings when they do. The most accurate is possibly the only straight one, who plans to be a singer. If all goes well, this troper will be her tour manager.

There is also a (straight) sophomore in college, but she and this troper have been calling each other 'twin' for 4 years so maybe it doesn't quite count.

Plastic ring HLP, met, plastic ring married, now girlfriend. So much for the 'heterosexual' bit of that, at least~

Does such a thing as a long distance HLP exist/count? We're radically different people with only a few common interests, but/because of that have been friends since junior high and all through high-school, no college (I moved) with next to no communication between semester... and we could always hit the "PLAY" button when together as if nothing happened in between. Even now when we're in the same city, we spend time together very irregularly (sometimes even a month without seeing each other) due to our strange schedules (I'm s a schoolteacher, he's a doctor). It's strange, it's like we have no relationship decay... which I hope is true, since we're ''both'' leaving town to study for 3 or so years. At least we'll both be in the US.

My best friend and I have been like this since college days. After graduation he got married and when I fell seriously a few years later ill, I was invited to move into their house, where I stayed for almost two years in a tiny apartment (that probably saved my life since they would drive me to hospital when needed). Then I got well, moved out and married a lady from another continent. Friend and wife traveled 8000 km just to be present at the wedding ceremony. And so on. Now we have kids of the same age who refer to each others as cousins. The two families celebrate all holidays except Christmas together. It has been a great arrangement; our wives agree to that, too.

Nearly a year ago, this (homosexual) troper fell in love with another boy. Upon finding out that the boy was, unfortunately, straight, I met his fraternal (and also straight) twin brother through him. We immediately hit it off. Within a month, his twin asked me if I would consider moving in with him if he bought a house. Within two months, he even referred to me (to one of '''my''' friends) as his "hetero life partner, except" that I am "gay." Sometimes, my friends view my life as a television program... and there is some wishful thinking on their parts. Even our ''mothers'' both independently suspect we are more than just friends. Sometimes it amuses me, sometimes it annoys me. Yes, yes, sometimes we act like a couple, but I can personally assure you: despite my homosexuality and his (admittedly sometimes seemingly tenuous) heterosexuality, I am most definitely '''not''' interested. (Mostly because falling in love with him would be too much like falling in love with myself, and that is just weird to me.) Man. He needs to find a girl and I need to find a man before we end up inadvertently mutually cock-blocking each other for life...

This troper has known her best friend all her life. Her friend has a habit of refering to them like a couple, including taking about thier "anniversary" in public. Someone even asked them if they lived together.

This troper met his friend when we were 14. All through high school we were ThoseTwoGuys, and later evolved into HeterosexualLifePartners. On party invitation lists, our names are one entry. The weird thing about that is the fact that people who are dating don't get the same treatment.

This troper and her best friend fit this to a T. Although people ''often'' mistake us for dating since she's a known lesbian (...and I'm asexual).

... Are you me?!

I seem to get a new one every few years because they either moved a thousand miles away or are being assimilated into a different social group... unfortunate.. Honestly, it doesn't help that both sides of each of these relationships are playing the AmbiguouslyGay card when we both have a significant other of the opposite sex.

This troper has two, one she's had for ten years and another she's had since she was less than a year old. They are also like this with each other. We all sit around in an RV in my backyard, playing with action figures like a bunch of elementary school kids or spewing out random ideas like "What if there was a clan of ninjas who wore argyle?" (this is the least crazy, not the most) and deciding what we should do about them. We also have so many inside jokes that we speak almost an entirely different language.

Well, technically this troper is bisexual but given that he's never viewed his HLP THAT way, this probably counts. Case in point, a good 80% of our mutual acquaintances have admitted they wouldn't be suprised if we'd confessed to being involved in a romantic relationship. It probably doesn't help that we did sing a duet of Guy Love once.

This Troper's mother has an HLP. They haven't really seen each other since my mother's wedding, but time and distance has changed nothing. As Mom said, "There is probably nothing that she could do to me that I wouldn't forgive her for, and vice versa. We've just been through too much shit together."

This Troper's and her BFF fit this trope to a tee! We are extremely close and can count on each other whenever. We are almost literally attached--all of our friends know that if one of us shows up at a party, the other will be close behind, and we do almost everything together. No day goes by where we don't talk at least once... There was a period of just three days where we didn't talk, and everyone thought the world was ending, or something. We almost have the same thought process and can usually tell what the other is feeling/thinking just by looking. Those who have known us for a long time know we're just friends, but others (including my parents... urgh) have suspicions that we're dating. Like my ex got so frustrated once, she ''actually'' said, "Why don't you just date her?!" Er, no thanks. We've known each other close to eight years now. And our relationship is nowhere close to sexual. It's awesome.

This Troper knows two guys who's closeness typically culminates into them fighting and wrestling with each other in a vaguely homoerotic manner. Occasionally knives get involved so it's quite scary to watch, even though you know they are good friends and aren't actually trying to kill each other. Maybe.

Now that college has started up, this troper and his [=HLP=] see way too little of each other. (I'm in California...he's in Iowa.) Honestly, I felt lost first quarter. it was pretty bad. ...Starting up another bromance probably helped on that front. (Does that make me, like, a friends-whore?)

This troper is this with her best friend.

This troper know two guys in her high school who are like this.

This troper and one of his friends are this in the making. We often hang a lampshade on this.

This troper and her best friend are entering their fourth year of {{Heterosexual Life Partner}}tude despite never living closer than three hours to each other and only seeing each other three or four times a year. Thank you, internet.

Subverted in This Troper's case, who thought she and her best friend were this, but then... not so much.

Then, double subverted when they decide they're BetterAsFriends, and... better just make this a YoYoPlotPoint.

Also, played straight with my mother and her best friend, but very averted with my mom's twin and her life partner.

This Troper and her best friend from college are so close that people have repeatedly assumed that we were dating, and our friends have reached a consensus that if our friend group was a sitcom, she and I would be the FanPreferredCouple.

This Troper has one with his neighbor. It generally brings up questions with the rest of our friends, such as "If he's gay...and Troper's straight-" Troper: "Magic happened, shut up." Although I do find it funny I'm more comfortable with his sexuality than he is, often grabbing his ass simply because I can and pointing out to whatever boyfriend he has that he "was mine first." Amusing, I find it.

That? Is CrazyAwesome personified.

This Troper and his buddy Dave on campus. "Dude. Heterosexual Life Partners." is the CatchPhrase whenever anyone suggests HoYay. The rest of our friends have just learned to deal with it.

This girl happens to be in a HLP HAREM of AT LEAST 15 girls that would easily go lesbian and marry one another, given the chance. In fact, two of them did. We're such good friends that we could easily know what color underwear the other is wearing on any given day without asking. It's not completely hetro though...several of them are bi, two are lesbian, and I'm a perverted asexual. I'd still marry every one of them in a heartbeat, though. Together for about six years <3 In fact, we've actually made plans to run away together, build a big-ass house and live there until we die. Oddly, none of us have been mistaken for gay, even though we throw hearts and 'I love you's to each other so frequently.

This troper has a weird example of this, resulting from my bisexuality; my first boyfriend became a heterosexual life partner after the relationship ended. Suffice to say that any ho yay thrown at us is simply hilarious.

This troper met his heterosexual Life Partner in first grade, and we've been friends ever since. Due to the fact that we look alike, share similar interests, and are both really smart, this has lead to a lot of accidental Ho Yay on our part, even coming from my sisters.

Used to have one with my friend from kindergarten. As of now, I'm trying to fix that.

This troper met his HLP by having a 6 month no hold barred fight with him in primary school... 16 years later and we're still brothers in all but blood...

With this Troper it's my cousin, and it's gotten to the point where we think in exactly the same way and can practiclly read each other's minds. One of us looking blankly at the other and then either saying 'Stop stealing my lines!' or telling an in-joke is incredibly common.

This Troper was frequently commented that my friend and I were always seen together.

This Troper has four, count 'em, four HeterosexualLifePartners. To clarify, two of them are twins who've been this troper's best friends since she was six (but they moved away, but we're still in close contact) the third is this troper's ally in eccentricity, and the last and I are pretty much glued at the hip in school, to the point that teacher's simply put us together if there are to be group activities.

Two of my female friends are HLPs, with more than a dash of RomanticTwoGirlFriendship. They frequently reference living together as though they expect to for the rest of their lives, get very competitive with each others' other friends, and they frequently share a bed. They've also made out on a couple of occasions, despite insisting that they are heterosexual. Many speculate that they've had sex at least once, though this may just be wishful thinking.

This female troper and the girl who's been her best friend since the 3rd grade. To the point where I refer to her as my wife and she calls me her husband. We do end up fitting those roles quite well and can be very huggy and ridiculous when we get together. There's probably a lot of unintentional LesYay going on.

This tropette/lurker has one. To the point where they are thought to be sisters, twins, and gay. All taken in stride. Never a dull moment with us two nerds...

Me and my friend do this, we are akways together and I think of him as my brother, despite half the people we know trying to ship us together. Im the quiet one, who keeps him out of trouble, and he has ADHD and is a lot of fun to talk to, and he brings out the crazy side in me. Other than that, we have a pretty similar personality, and interests.

This troper has two friends who are some weird version of this - they're a guy and a girl, but the guy is gay, and the girl's never shown any sign of liking him as more than a friend. They have tons of photographs of them together, and since the start of high school they don't seem to have been apart for very long. This troper is now in college. They seem to do everything together and if I didn't know that the guy was gay, I'd probably think they were together with how close they are.

Same troper - apparently, the guy would probably be with the girl if she was a guy, so there you go.

I've been with my best friend for 12 years now (we met when we were little 4 year olds). True, we argued (every Tuesday) over little things, but eh. And when we are 18 and at uni, we're going to rent a flat together (we've even decided what it's going to look like).

This troper is in such a couple. She and her friend Nicole are pretty much inseparable, despite the fact that they live in different cities and only get to see each other twice a month or so. Their hobbies include voice chatting on Skype, watching Doctor Who, consuming lethal doses of caffeine and sugar, and roleplaying online, either by themselves or joined by Nicole's long-distance boyfriend.

This troper only recently realized that she prefers to have completely platonic HLPs over boyfriends, and has had different HLPs for her entire life.

Two girls in this Troper's form in school are exactly like this. Every single day is even more random than the previous one for them, and pretty much everyone has decided that they are twins separated at birth. It's kind of sweet, actually.

This Troper has this with her former roommate. Met freshman year of college, and became instantly inseparable. By second semester, we were so “in sync” that we wore the same t-shirts to class, completely on accident, for four days straight. We started calling each other our HLPs shortly after I introduced her to tvtropes. We’re both straight, and currently single, but we tend to do things that make people… question that. Like calling each other “hubby” and “wifey” or “Mommy” and “Daddy.” We’ve been each other’s Valentine’s dates two years running, and this year I sent her a Happy Father’s Day text (because we joke about our “kids”). Shortly after This Troper introduced the HLP to her mother, her mother made a point of letting her know that if she were gay, it would be okay. (Thanks for the support, Mom, but no.)

This (gay) Troper met her (straight) HLP in highschool, maintained an online friendship when said friend moved away six months later, and ended up moving in together a year out of school. These days we consider ourselves married, despite maintaining separate beds and not having that pesky piece of paper. Even our friends, workmates and families are convinced that we're secretly sleeping together and are just hiding our Big Gay Love. We're celebrating our ten-year anniversary this month, and couldn't be happier with our purely platonic 'marriage'. In your face, Disney!

This troper and her HLP have similar to identical taste in food, clothing, literature, etc; similar to identical hobbies; their writing styles are similar, they look alike enough to be sisters (there are even similarities between the families), and have the EXACT same mindset--one could swear it's telepathy. They spend as much time as possible together and bicker like an old married couple. So 'tis little wonder that they're often mistaken for girlfriends. Just don't tell the HLP that this (bi) troper doesn't mind it all ''that'' much.

I knew two pairs of HLP in high school. The first pair were jocks. Needless to say, they were very close. Same varsity football team, same classes- there was never a moment anyone ever saw one without the other. The other pair were less codependant, and I didn't learn of their HLPness until one of them ended up in the same English class as me in college. Our assignment was to write an essay about someone you know and comtemplate your relationship with them. Said classmate wrote of his HLP, and of said partner's selflessness, offering him a place to stay when classmate had nowhere to go. Crowning Moment of Heartwarming? I think so. If not, then you had to have been there...

In a not so uncommon twist, I'm this with my best friend, who happens to be homosexual (where I'm not). Infact, we're this to such an extent that when one boyfriend basically said "Him or Me" in reference to our friendship, he chose me.

Then again, it 'could' be a case of AllLoveIsUnrequited.

This troper is part of a HeterosexualLifePartner threeway. We're all really close with each other, largely have all the same interests, and do everything we can together. We're close enough that two of us took vacation time to help the third move 800 miles to his new job...and that's not counting the 150 miles I had to drive just to get to his current house, or the 400 miles my other buddy had to drive to do the same.

This Tropers dad, after divorcing my mother, lives together with his best friend (who is openly homosexual, my dad is just very ambigous). And they even share a bed...It's actually kind of cute.

Also, I live together with my best friend (he's gay, I'm Asexual), he's in a very happy relationship but still everytime we go out, everyone assumes we're a couple.

This troper and her BFF since 6th grade. (She's apparently Bi, I'm Asexual, but hetero-romantic)About ten minutes ago I informed her via the internet that we are HLP 's. She agreed. We married last year, spur of the moment, before the warning bell for first period rang, on March 1st. Our Mormon friend was our, uh, 'marry-er' We celebrated our first anniversary this year, with soft pretzels, rasberry soda in dollar-store champagne glasses, and snack cakes. We are often MistakenForGay by our mothers and friends not part of the {{Nakama}} This troper doesn't help it as she is extremely touchy when she is comfortable with someone and has a tendency to sit in her HLP 's lap much like a girlfriend in her boyfriend's. Has prompted HLP 's brother to comment "Stop Making Out" when I was facing away from him whispering in HLP 's ear. I'm about 95% sure he meant it in jest, however.

So, this troper and his best friend have known each other since 1st grade (about what, 13 years now?). I moved away a couple of times but we'd still visit each other every once in a while, helped by the fact our families are pretty good friends too. I recently moved to an apartment and it wasn't even a question that he would move in with me, and I probably celebrated him being admitted into college more than myself. Weirdly enough, unlike other examples, the whole "aren't you guys..." issue was avoided, mostly because both of us were in relationships before and because of the families being friends thing.

Hit it off better than nobody would believe? Check. Being inseparable/walking hand in hand in school? Check. Hugging, cuddling and rubbing noses whenever we can? Check? Partial telepathy? Check. "Married with children", both in behaviour and repurtation? Check. (I even have a "wedding ring" bracelet.) Still, we're just really good friends. There's no hint of romantic or sexual attraction between us. Though on the other hand, I am most likely an aromantic person and she is... she ''might'' be asexual, haven't gotten a straight answer out of her yet.

Where to start? This troper is part of a HeterosexualLifePartners threesome. We've been inseperable since middle school (although we belonged to different social groups; I'm a music student, One was a ROTC student, and the other just hung out with the rednecks and skaters). We've been separated because the ROTC kid went into the military, and have been coping. We also horse around alot and have been MistakenForGay often (sometimes for the horsing around, showing our units to each other, and others for our strong friendship. Although, to be fair... (just me, not the other two).

An odd version with this Troper is that she has a Heterosexual Life Partner, but everyone always mistakes another friend of mine for being my girlfriend. My HLP, Casey, has been good friends with me since I was in 7th grade and she was in 8th, and we're nigh inseparable. My other friend is just a very...physical person. She likes to hug and cling, even though she knows I hate that, and when I protest, she just nuzzles against my arm and goes "Love!" Naturally, a friend's mom mistook us for lesbians at one point. But no one has ever suspected Casey and I of the same behavior, even though we openly make pervy comments towards each other, stay at each other's houses a lot, share a bed when we visit each other, etc.

This troper met his Heterosexual Life Partner on the summer before his freshman year of college, and they have kept together ever since. We're practically identical in tastes, personalities, goals, and aspirations, spend most of the day together, make it so that we are taking the same classes, and can just as likely spend the whole day playing our instruments as talk about the implications of quantum mechanics. In fact, several people (including our physics teacher) has gone as far as to make gay jokes about us (which is rather awkward, considering I'm gay and he's straight). However, I have no romantic interest in him, and it's almost a brotherly love.

My 2 best friends, everybody else hates us except for few people. we are always up to something or just playing video games. we even got chased by a high school football team. our crazy antics usually get us into trouble and instead of dealing with it, we just never talk to them until they have prabably forgotten it.

My HLP has been my closest friend for close to 3 years, and many people assume we have a gay crush on each other. The best part? We look like brothers.

This troper was this with the girl with whom she was best friends from second grade through high school. So much so that when I came out, she asked if I felt any other way about her beyond JustFriends (the answer was no).

This troper's got two. One doubles as a Vitriolic Best Bud and was my first girl crush. The other one and I have been mistaken for girlfriends on a few occasions due to constant hand-holding, a million inside jokes and that one time we bought handcuffs together.

This troper has had one very good HLP since 7th grade, despite being in different High Schools now. Instant messaging almost everyday, four hour phone conversations, and introducing each other with "Meet my heterosexual life partner!" We even speak troper together in public. If you ever happen to read this, Sam, you know who wrote it!

This troper has got a lot of VitriolicBestBuds (as she's just plain vitriolic), but just one Heterosexual Life Partner, and that's her fellow cosplayer. Even still, we do most everything together, and feel the need to hang out despite having so much free time at school. Not to mention, we've cosplayed girls that get shipped together... combined with the hugging and the random proclamations of love and fakey-flirting followed by fits of laughter... no, no one has asked if we're gay.

This troper's Vitriolic Best Bud and herself have been mistaken for a lesbian bickering couple more than once. We always celebrate Christmas, New Year's Eve and other holidays together, as well as our birthdays. In one occasion when we were both single, we even went out together on Valentine's Day. In a similar situation, her brother and my current crush are also Heterosexual Life Partners, only even more homoerotic, since they've gone as far as kissing in public (in a playful, look-how-gay-this-is way), while my HLP is squicked out by anything lesbian. Her brother even broke up with his girlfriend once because she asked her to choose between her and his HLP. She had no idea.

This troper's best friend and he are this. Neither of them are gay. In fact, saying they are is a good way of pissing them off. As of this post, both are Juniors in different high schools who are best friends since second grade. They used to hang out all the time but now we just call each other every couple of weeks.

This troper essentially has this relationship with her mother. It bothers both of us greatly to spend more than a few days apart, and we've never been separated from each other for more than a week since I was four. However, in spite of the fact that because of our blood tie we're (thankfully) never MistakenForGay, we still get to lament with the rest of you about how most people Just Don't Understand Our Relationship. Simply because it's not a social norm for a parent and a child to ''actually'' be best friends to such an extent, most people assume there ''must'' be some kind of unhealthy fixation. Because, of course, there are no exceptions to any rule and no matter the circumstances that brought about such closeness, it could never possibly be just as healthy as a friendship between two siblings, or two unrelated people.\\ Please note that my mother is in a committed, fulfilling, and loving relationship with a man, and neither he nor I feel threatened by each other. However, they don't live together because my mother enjoys the freedom of living "on her own" (so to speak). The same holds true for myself and my boyfriend. My mother and I have both agreed that if we continued living together indefinitely, it wouldn't bother us at all.

My best friend and I are practically inseparable, despite the fact that we both graduated and are now at college two hours away from each other. People used to think we were a couple, and even people who knew we weren't thought that we liked each other, but never said anything about it. Subverted in the fact that we are both lesbians, we're just not attracted to each other.

I has a friend from high school who pretty much fits the bill. We've only known each other since sophomore year, but three years after graduation and we still have a great dynamic. We're actually both tropers, so our HLP factor gets lampshaded quite a bit amongst us. Also, I'm actually gay; he's not (though he IS a lolicon, which just makes the dynamic that much lulzier), though we do discuss a whole lot of incredigay things with each other, and sometimes go as far as to toss out a bit of bravado IRL (to troll the hell out of our small podunk redneck southern Baptist villagers, of course). Even though I have a boyfriend and he has a... step-niece, other friends have actually noted the Ho Yay between us, and we've literally discussed in great detail ''moving to San Francisco together,'' among other major life decisions that we may make as a "pair" in the future. ....We seriously might as well just get married at this point.

This male troper and his guy friends sometimes get really close... although when I tell them that we're this they normally get creeped out.

This troper and one of her very few friends are this. We even have nicknames for each other, even tough many people think this is a little wierd, and my parents REALLY don't approve of me hanging out with her, for some reason...

I've known my friend for about 6 years now and I visit his house just about every weekend. He's this fat loveable kid who never talks to anyone but me.

My best friend and I have been confused for a couple before, in spite of the fact that not only aren't we, but that neither of us looks or acts stereotypically gay or even sexually ambiguously. My friend's as straight as they get, with steady girlfriend, while I'm bisexual (but not obviously), but not in the least interested in my friend! Seriously, people! That said, we do stick together in a somewhat odd fashion...

This bisexual female and her best female friend. We met at age eleven and have stuck together ever since. Nowadays we live several hours apart, and as students who are constantly broke we are rarely able to visit each other, but we still feel as close as ever. I think it says a lot about our relationship that every time someone comments that we would make a good couple (which is ''often'') it feels uncomfortably incestuous to me.

This straight male troper dated a girl when they were about 11. A year after breaking up, they became friends again. They've been best friends for 7 years now.

This same troper also has a solid bromance with a friend that other people claim falls into ho yay. It doesn't help that we're both slim, somewhat androgynous, and feminine men with long hair. But, we do go on man-dates, which range from shopping, playing video games, going to nice restaurants, drinking, sparring, etc.

This Troper was introduced to his now HLP back when he was 12. He's now 15, his HLP is 17. In a band with each other and considering flat sharing following the end of each's education!

This Troper has been HLP since 2004 with a guy from Spain. While both of us are bisexual, he prefers females and I prefer men. Doesn't stop us from the fact that we practically call each other "brothers", hug and kiss each other when greeting each other, even cuddling up in bed together....does it still count as HeterosexualLifePartners if things go further than that despite the fact we're just best friends?

This troper and his friend have a sort of pre-split-Sartre-and-Camus relationship. We earned the nicknames "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern"

Two of my closest friends straddle the line between this and HoYay. They do everything together, including walking each other to class (and hugging before they part), feeding each other food, fixing one another's clothes if they're askew, having-and I quote-"slumber parties" almost every weekend, and being one another's dates to our homecoming dance. Have I also mentioned their facebook statuses say 'in an open relationship with...'? Yeah, we're all waiting for the day when Fb puts an option for 'in a bromance with...'

This troper is seriously considering gay-marrying her HLP, who has serious health issues that hinder her ability to work full-time, for the sole purpose of allowing the HLP to share in this troper's health insurance. We laughed about it when I mentioned the idea, but if it didn't pretty much spit in the face of every loving gay couple who has had to fight for their right to marry for love . . . well, I want my buddy to be able to live as long and as healthy a life as possible, you know?

My HLP has actually said that he loves me "in the most bromantic way possible." I responded that I loved him in the most bromantic way possible for using the word "bromantic."

Aside from this troper not being a heterosexual, she and her platonic female best friend are so close that she has actually started referring to said friend as "Spock" or "Watson" because once her HLP stated that if they were in a television show they'd end up with more Slash Fics than Kirk/Spock and Sherlock/Watson combined. Statements like "Max can attest that I never wear pants" do not help the Les Yay.

This troper and her male best friend are this trope incarnate, since we're essentially both the same person (we finish each other's sentences and like exactly the same things and stuff like that). We've lost track of the number of times that people have asked if we were dating. It gets really old after a while.

This Tropette knows a heck of a lot of HLPs on an theme park forum. One example is Russell and Rob, shortened to Robell/Russob by many, and Russell happens to be a Camp Straight with a lovely girlfriend. Always together on and off the internet. We joke that they'll be married soon.

This Troper and his male best friend have been this since sometime prior to the fourth grade (cannot exactly remember when). Nobody's told us to our faces that they thought we were a couple... yet.

This Troper and her female HLP have been best friends since kindergarden and have agreed that we are probably soul mates. We are both attractive girls and when we recently went on a trip we were wondering why we didn't get much action - turns out everyone assumed we were a couple and we were cock blocking each other the whole time.

This Troper and his best friend are pretty much this, although "heterosexual" is perhaps not the right term: He's heteroromantic but basically {{asexual}}, and I'm bisexual but essentially celibate. That said, we're practically a single organism at points.

This Troper has...two heterosexual life partners. One (bisexual) claims she's my husband (yes, she ), and yet another (heterosexual) claims to be my boyfriend ( yet again, she ). It's a shame I'm asexual and prove the rumors wrong.

This troper has a Heterosexual Life Partner whom I've known since we were in kindergarten. We're together often enough that people will call one of us by the other's name, even though we look nothing alike. We're opposites in a lot of ways, but have enough similarities to balance each other out. Whatever one lacks, the other makes up for in spades, and we care about each other deeply.

I love my best friend more than I can say. Despite the fact that I'm openly gay and have been for as long as we've known each other, she has never once felt the need to ask me if I'm attracted to her, because that's so obviously not the relationship we have. I love her just as much as I do my actual LoveInterest, just not the same way.

Pretty sure this applies, especially the whole missing BFF after only a month! Basically dating my best friend..and nobody even knows!

This troper and her best friend met when I was in fifth grade and she was in fourth grade. We got along well and upgraded to this trope about a year after our initial meeting. More than one person has asked if we were together (We're both quite straight), though that has thankfully stopped for the most part once she got together with her boyfriend. (She's been with him five years now and she tells me that she loves us both equally, but obviously in different ways.) We're now in seperate colleges, but still as close as ever. It was rather exciting and mind-blowing when we realized our "ten year anniversary" (summer 2011) was coming up. We used to tell each other that we loved each other before following up with "in a totally straight, sisterly way". But by now, that goes without saying. We're both comfortable enough in our sexuality and friendship to hug each other and declare "I love you!" in public, without caring what anyone mistakenly reads into it. My parents call her their "other daughter" and her parents say the same thing about me. I've just tried to hit a few points about our friendship in this paragraph, since we could probably write a book about our adventures and misadventures. I was so excited to discover this trope and share it with her, because we both agree it's the PERFECT way to describe our friendship.

This troper and her best friend, Jenny, could be considered this. We constantly cling to each other, and when we argue, it seems less like an argument between friends and more like a lover's quarrel. Similarly, this troper knows two boys in her science class, who we shall call Captain America and The Sidekick. Captain America claims to dislike The Sidekick, who is kind of a jerk (Captain America has no room to talk), but they are constantly laughing and joking with one another, they walk to all of their classes together, and The Sidekick seems to be the only one that can make Captain America act like his true self. The only reason this troper knows that they're just friends is because The Sidekick has a girlfriend.

This troper has had two, one is a friend I've known for about 15-16 years and have been mistaken for gay or brothers (and once both, which is funny since I'm Asexual/Aromantic and he is Heterosexual), and the other I've known for about 7-8 years and while we don't hang out more than once a week or fortnight most of the time, I'm one of his only friends that he actually hangs out with.

I had one of these until he moved to Devon, at the other end of the country. It was great - having someone to rely, someone you knew would always be there. No worrying about who you would go with whenever you needed a partner at school, it was great. It's like I took it all for granted and its only now that I realize how lucky I was. I want a best friend again.

I (male troper) have quite a few of these and we are pretty much a nakama, or as we like to call it, non-blood brothers. We are pretty much siblings except for the blood relation part. Two of them I have met them since elementary school, and although one of these two had to move to continue his career as an airplane pilot, he comes to visit two moths a year of so. Best friends I could ever ask for. However I am a little dazzled at the extreme closeness and mistaken for gay moments here... not that there´s anything wrong with that but as close as we are, we never got any of that.

This troper was friends with a couple of girls named Tara and Lauren until 5th Grade, when I moved schools. A girl named Aimiee joined our group in fourth grade. We were jointed at the hip, non blood sisters if you will. We did everything together, since Kindergarten started till fifth grade's end. Projects, Gossiping, Clothing, every birthday party. Today, we still kinda communicate, even if it's through Facebook, sans the fact that Tara lives on a farm, Aimee lives far uptown, and I live in a even farther away suburb, and Lauren just doesn't live close either.

This troper has known her best friend since kindergarten, though we only became friends in second grade. We have been friends since. My classmate even ships us together. She now has another life partner that joined the group in grade 8.

Not really sure if it's possible to be HeterosexualLifePartners with someone who's homosexual, but my best friend and I are inseparable. She's the only one I ever talk to most of the time, I dragged her down two states to live with me for a while, and I get twitchy and impatient when I can't talk to her (like when I'm at work). It's just that I'm straight and she's a lesbian. (This also used to be with my roommate before I met my now-best friend—all we did was chill together in the room. And she was also a lesbian. ...I am a lesbian-magnet somehow.)

My best friend and I are both gay, and both seem to fall under this. She's the only friend who I feel happy seeing on a regular basis (socialising isn't usually my strong point), and I can be my random self with her in a way that I can't be with anyone else. My Mum has often asked me why we're not a couple, but really we're just perfectly happy as friends.

Not sure if this counts but I have about five hetrosexual life partners (okay four are hetrosexual, two are in relationships, three are MALE, one of whom I used to be in a relationship with and one who is pansexual) and add the fact that this troper is bisexual herself and we're one big bizarre happy family.

This troper has two Heterosexual Life Partners. One who is a devout christian and one who is a devout asshole. They all bicker with each other LikeAnOldMarriedCouple. But of course, they'll never split.

Another example was in Elementary School between three other friends, Joel, Winston and [=DeAndre=]. Joel and Winston were good friends with one another and always hung out. When [=DeAndre=] came along, Joel and him also hung out a lot. Winston obviously became jealous of [=DeAndre=] and always saying "fuck him" and that Joel should stop hanging out with him. I think eventually they fought. Looking back at it now, it's pretty hilarious.

I have 5 really close friends, and we're all HLP. (For the most part, though I'm not interested in any of them.) It is the most awesome, funniest, and most comforting relationship I have ever had.