We are ‘platonic soulmates’ who share a bed — we don’t care if people think we’re weird
Who needs a man in your bed when you have a bestie to cuddle?
Estella Kyriacou and Imogen Clarke, both 25, have gone from Bumble BFF to living together and sharing a bed in just seven weeks — they’re sleeping together without sleeping together.
The two single Londoners have declared themselves “platonic soulmates…because we feel like we just get each other,” Kyriacou explained to What’s The Jam.
She insists that their relationship goes beyond friendship because it sparked so quickly in a “when-you-know-you-know situation.”
“Big cities can be very lonely at times and we both felt that,” Kyriacou said.
But since moving in together and becoming “platonic soulmates” the women couldn’t be happier.
“We both feel like we are just living our 20s the way we want to and have someone to share it with,” she said.
Kyriacou, a law student originally from Toronto, Canada, and Clarke, a mortgage broker from Buckinghamshire, UK first connected on the friend-making app in March and quickly hit it off.
“We were both a bit nervous, but as soon as we got there it felt comfortable,” Kyriacou said. “We had a few drinks and went to another pub, and we both said ‘OK, let’s be friends’.”
The two continued to get to know each other texting and sending voice notes throughout the next few days and soon knew that they had found their person.
They had joked about moving in together on their first meeting, and on their second hang out — a girls night out — they both decided to go for it.
Their third meeting was spent beginning their apartment hunt together in the city.
“At this point, we weren’t best friends yet, but we knew we would get really close,” Clarke shared.
“By the time we signed the lease – just short of four weeks into our friendship – Estella said ‘We are going to be best friends’, and I said ‘I thought we already were’.”
The besties moved in together on May 1, and say things have been “seamless” ever since.
They spend all their time together, take care of each other — Clarke does the laundry and Kryiacou does the cooking — and look forward to coming home to each other.
“Just like people feel that they are so lucky that they met their spouses and it was the right place and right time, we count our lucky stars because we are so beyond happy and blessed that we found each other,” Kyriacou said.
“We always say we have such a good life together, and we really mean it.”
The two share everything including clothes, shoes, make-up, food — and even a bed. But the girlies aren’t getting it on.
Kyriacou, who’s terrified of spiders, woke up one night to find a creepy crawler in her bed. She immediately awoke her friend but the two were too scared to do anything about the unwanted guest at 5 am so they got into Clarke’s bed together.
“I ended up sleeping in her bed for what we thought would be like two weeks until it blew over, but we made a habit of it and every night we would just debrief the day in bed,” Kyriacou said.
The young women now use the spare room as a walk-in wardrobe.
“A lot of people find it extremely weird and assume we are together. But it’s just like a sleepover with your bestie every night,” Kyriacou said, brushing off the hate.
“We know that when one of us gets into a relationship, we will both have quite the adjustment period.”
