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“Chandler: Monica, do you want to marry me personally? Monica: Yes. ” — Chandler and Monica into the One with all the Proposal, component 2

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It were only available in the season finale episode of Season 4.

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Chandler and Monica have actually understood one another simply because they had been inside their belated teenagers.

They met at Thanksgiving 1987, whenever Monica had been a Senior in twelfth grade and Chandler had been Ross’ freshman university roomie; but, their relationship got down to a start that is rocky Monica create a crush on Chandler and overheard him calling her Ross’ ‘fat sis’. This insult inspired her to lose surplus weight, therefore the following year she experimented with get him nude and humiliate him but unintentionally cut his toe off rather. (“The Only With The Thanksgivings”).

They did be friends, as soon as Chandler graduated from NYU, Monica cared adequate to tip him off about Apartment 19 becoming available and additionally they became next-door neighbors.

A flashback set per year ahead of the show begins implies these were closer before Joey and Rachel became their particular roommates, because they hung away during the club alone together, played pool plus it had been Chandler who comforted Monica about Phoebe moving away. You will find tips of attraction at this stage, her she was “the most beautiful women he’d ever known in real life, and “one of his favorite people” as he told. (“The Main One Because Of The Flashback”)

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Their relationship in the 1st four seasons portrays them as close buddies. In Season 2, it’s revealed they have confided secrets unknown to your remaining portion of the gang, like Chandler having a ‘third nipple’. It really is Monica whom takes the lead in guaranteeing Chandler he will not perish alone (“The One Where Heckles Dies”), coaching him through their dedication difficulties with Janice (“The One because of The Metaphorical Tunnel”), reassuring him over their break up with Kathy (“the main one With Joey’s Dirty time”) and also giving him detailed intercourse advice to higher please females. (“The Only With Phoebe’s Uterus”).

It is also hinted Chandler has much deeper emotions for Monica. He implies they be one another’s ‘back ups’ if they are both nevertheless solitary at 40 (“the main one Using The Birth”) and over repeatedly attempts to persuade her to date him, seemingly offended which he’s perhaps perhaps not ‘boyfriend material’. Monica takes it as a tale, though she does acknowledge he is ‘sweet and smart’ and that she really loves him. (“Usually The One At The Beach” – “The Only Utilizing The Jellyfish”). They are periodically seen sitting extremely close or cuddling in a seat together, despite simply being platonic friends.

Their relationship that is actual starts Monica becomes depressed during the rehearsal dinner for Ross and Emily’s wedding:

Her bro is engaged and getting married for the 2nd time she was Ross’ mother (“The One With Ross’ Wedding, Part 2”) while she doesn’t even have a boyfriend, her mother keeps making cracks suggesting she’ll never get married and some drunk guy thought. She chooses that why not an of meaningless sex will make her feel better and goes looking for joey night. He is not here, but Chandler is, as soon as Chandler tries to console her, telling her he thought she had been the most amazing girl within the space that evening, that she had been the most amazing girl in many rooms, Monica tosses by herself at him plus they wind up investing the evening together (the revelation about her originally likely to find Joey and exactly how they met up is revealed into the Truth about London episode). The day that is next initially things are very embarrassing among them. They agree that sleeping together was a stupid thing to do, but that’s not enough to keep them from agreeing to meet up again that night when they meet up at the wedding. They state that they can stop after they leave London, but that fails and so they start a relationship. Although they carry on to fall in love and also have the longest partnership between two associated with buddies for the show, it isn’t clear at this time simply how much of the relationship is dependant on genuine emotions and just how much is simply about intercourse. Nevertheless, in “the main one utilizing the Truth About London”, Chandler is the very first evening he and Monica invested together as the utmost intimate nights their life, therefore it seems likely that Chandler, at the least, already had intimate emotions for Monica because of the time their very first evening together had been over.