Men Reveal If Their Relationships With Their Female Friends Can Stay Platonic

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    Font - Do you have female friends where the relationship is 100% platonic on both sides?
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    Font - IndifferentWitness 1 day ago I have a number of platonic female friends, some for over 40 years. Two are girlfriends from long ago the other 10 or so began as professional colleagues, mainly in software engineering or product management, and became friends as the years went on or one of us moved companies. Despite three of them being so called drop dead gorgeous, there's no allure there. Simply isn't. Maybe it's because I've been very happily married for decades, but friends are friends d
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    Font - hellohellos 1 day ago i have a bunch of female friends that are genuinely platonic, we met in college, or through a friend. one of my best female friends officiated my wedding, so many are close, but some are just regular friends.
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    Font - Terraneaux - 1 day ago There's plenty of guys who treat women as people who don't have good romantic prospectsz and plenty of guys who treat them like objects who do.
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    Font - yviscool. 1 day ago Male been best friends with a girl since we were in pre-school together. It's very possible to be in a platonic relationship with a girl, especially if you've known each other a long time.
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    Font - TreatMeLikeASlut8. 18 hr. ago I'll never understand why people make it sound like it isn't possible. Is it just because they don't know how to be platonic, and they find it impossible to not think about sex/something romantic when it comes to women? So they assume that's how everyone is?
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    Font - Rational-Introvert. 21 hr. ago. edited 19 hr. ago Male I recently started dating a girl with a LOT of guy friends. Like close friends from grade school. Not gonna lie, it has and still does bother me a bit, but I've never outwardly showed that it did because I know I'd come off as insecure. Reading yours and some other posts in here has helped a bit.
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    Font - cheeeee 1 day ago This is not a flex but more a frustration. 95% of my male friends, who I consider family, would sleep with me if the opportunity presented. The other 5% are gay.
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    Font - Rich_Group_8997- 1 day ago It's weird, right? For some reason, people have been conditioned to believe that all men and all women must naturally just want each other thus can't just be friends. Hence 'girlfriends' always trying to push their man's 'girl' friends out of their lives (I've been on the receiving end of this many times; I don't know how men behave).
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    Font - fish-ye 1 day ago Yes, I've had multiple friends who happen to be girls where things were platonic. One of which is my current best friend.
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    Font - pipefitter03 1 day ago Yes i do. One for over 20 years and one for over 30
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    Font - pherislore 1 day ago edited 19 hr. ago I think it is a very hard balance, but it can definitely happen. The problem is that too many people lie to themselves and convince themselves that it's platonic. In lots of cases one person would jump at the chance to be with other person, or sleep with them. That's why I generally consider male-female platonic friendships to be of a different category.

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