Today is my friend Julie's birthday.
She is a friend from college. She is married to my former roommate Ralph, we lived in an off campus apartment.
He would always come home talking and talking and talking about this girl (I didn't know it was Julie at the time)
One day I got some annoyed I yelled at him, JUST FUCKING ASK HER OUT. JESUS FUCK, DUDE...
He did and they started dating. And then got married years later. I like to think many times I've been a decent facilitator for friends to get out of their own way and realize there's a good thing they're making excuses to not pursue.
This was the only time I did it out of frustration. If I had not got so annoyed with Ralph, I don't think he would taken that first step. He was a virgin and never had a real girlfriend before. He needed a little push. Not the push I didn't intend but the outcome worked.