As a single girl who loves the company of male friends, I still don't know the answer to this one.
Is it possible for a single straight woman and a single straight man to be just friends? (No benefits, no sexual tension, no more-than-a-friend feelings)
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Ok, I've been going back and forth on this for months, ever since a friend insisted on its impossibility. At first I defiantly said YES, but upon further review, my answer is NO, there is no such thing as just friends between two heterosexual single man and woman.
Then how, you may ask, do I maintain friendships with males? Either they're not single (and we really are friends) or they're not straight (even if they won't admit to it, it explains the lack of sexual tension). And for all the other guys that I was insisting possibility with at first, I later realized that at one point or another, they all wanted something more. See, it's just not possible.
I agree. My initial response was yes, of course, we can be just friends! However, when I really stopped to think about it, I realized that pretty much all of my male friends became my friend while I was in a relationship or vice versa. Of course, one of my best friends is a man, and we are both currently single. HOWEVER, he is my ex-imaginary boyfriend, so obviously at one point we were more than just friends. But we got that out of our systems, and are now free to be nothing more.
Maybe we should all watch "When Harry Met Sally" for homework.
Sorry I've been meaning to answer this. I think that it is possible to be "just friends" with someone that you hang out with mostly as part of a group. (I have a couple of guy friends like this.)
It is you start to spend time alone with a member of the opposite sex that it becomes inevitible that there will be some sort of sexual tension or feelings on one side or the other.
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