I think that Angel should stop looking for issues where there are none, and enjoy the present in all it's glory. In the great words of the Spice Girls "if you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends, make it last forever, friendship never ends"... If you value and love Brenda as a person, a humanbeing, a friend, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, and it doesn't mean you 2 will end up together. I have a male friend, whom I love to bits (and at 1 point we did get physical, but that was a consensual experiment, and we went back to being platonic) my x bf saw him as a threat to our r/s, and wanted me to do away with him. I'm ashamed to admit it, but at 1 point, I did break all contact. Didn't make my bf any more secure, and our r/s obviously didn't last. THANKFULLY my friend didn't hold it against me, and no, my friend and I didn't end up together or even try dating. Today he's married with a son and a 2nd on the way just my 2c.