Would you date someone with an imaginary friend?

This sounds like a scary movie concept.

The last thing I need is for Imaginary Bob to get jealous of our relationships and try to take me out of the equation. I am usually the lenient one when it comes to these threads, but I'll pass.

 

Well if you pretend your plush toys are real and you are just using them to bounce ideas off and such (read "rubber duck debugging" as an example), then I think it's okay. But if you really think there's an imaginary person idk. I don't think I'd understand it. It would be a red flag that you have mental issues so no.

 

I probably would. Obviously it depends on how much of a friend they are to them, but if it was just someone they talked to every now and then, then I'd be fine with it.

 

I'd say no in most cases, unless it was like a daydream style imaginary person.

 

I don't see anything wrong with it. I guess it would be awkward if I had to talk to the imaginary friend and my partner would respond for them but if it was just them talking to their imaginary friend, I don't see any issues. It would be like someone talking to themselves.

 

It would depend on the friend, honestly. I can be quite a judgmental and possessive bitch. :icon_twis

 

Honestly I wouldn't. If you are talking to an imaginary friend you probably should go talk to a therapist instead. I'm not trying to be mean but a therapist is who you are suppose to talk to about pretty much all things. Plus I would be kind of freaked out and as if I was in an adult version of the movie Hide and Seek.

 

Maybe.
I mean, if this is a joke or comfort thing and the person knows that the friend is imaginary, yes, I do talk to myself, to my pets and sometime even to my consoles thumbsup but I don't, let's say, make my cat decide for me.
If they believe that friend is real and are influenced by "it", "it" makes decision for them or whatever, well no.

 

I wouldn't mind. It shows that the person has an imagination.

 

i agree.

 

I think it depends on the definition of "imaginary friend." Is it a spirit guide or an angel? Is it the fact that they can feel the presence of a dead family member near them? These kinds of things are totally cool with me~

If they are chatting with an empty chair and having full on conversations with them in public or with me there and I'm supposed to accept this entity as a part of the relationship... no.

 

No I wouldn't be able to take them seriously.

 

No.

I don't even understand why someone would have an imaginary friend. Talking to myself is enough for me. If a potential partner takes an imaginary friend seriously, then they're not a potential partner anymore.

 

What if we're the imaginary friend?

 

No I wouldn't. It seems it would be only a matter of time before I start finding bodies and the guy says it was his "friend" who did it. :icon_eek:

 

I think that this is a legitimate thing because my boyfriend is imaginary at the moment but when I get a boyfriend, I think imaginary boyfriend will leave cause I'll have the real thing.

 

Well no. I'm an atheist.

 

You're a savage

 

I would. If i loved someone, it wouldn't matter to me if they had an imaginary friend.