Well there are two ways to decrease the risk of getting a girlfriend stolen by your best friend: 1. Look like me and be hyper-shy and be interested in commitment although never having a single date ever which destroys the chance of getting a girlfriend in the first place, and 2. Have a woman as your best friend, that gives the benefit of having a nice woman to talk to which is enough for me, as long as I got a car to drive that is.
I do think that generally one doesn't chose who to fall in love with, at most then maybe someone can have some feelings stowed away, maybe like I may have by totally dismissing the idea of dating, but generally I don't think one can make one fall in love with someone, however falling in love and loving someone isn't connected and italian tests have shown that the emotion of falling in love fades away after 1-2 years at most. My parents were together around 30 years before he died and he loved her and helped her and cherished her every single day of his life since he met her and never ever cheated and became abusive or angry and even in some heavy oposition from my mom's bad days after her divorce from a bad first husband, my dad saw thrue that and still was there every single minute. That's true love (imho).
And like you can't make someone fall in love with someone, you can't change a story that's been written months in advance so I'm just going to sit back and wait until tuesday to see what will happend.
Frank