Can men and women REALLY just be friends?

or is that something guys tell us fat, ugly chicks to get us off their backs?? ha ha

no seriously, I always thought that you could just be friends with a person of the opposite sex, but lately I am seriously beginning to doubt that!!

Would be interested to hear your thoughts

 

My best friend is a guy, and he is attractive, funny and nice, theres no reason why I wouldn't go for him except that he's just not my type really....I don't even know if its that! But we've never been single at the same time and our relationship has progressed into a sister-brother thing where he can touch my boob accidentally and its actually as if your brother does it. Hahaha

I think guys are very good to be friends with, they like joking around more than girls generally. I find girls generally to be more serious with eachother and quite two faced (not in a bad sense but in the sense that us girls tend to hide from eachother in fear of being judged and talked about by the other girl)

Thats just my thoughts, I said 'generally' so I dont think that is true of all girls!!!

 

yes.

 

I used to wonder the same thing myself, but I do think it is possible. I was close friends with a guy for 6 years before he moved out of state. It never turned into anything physical or romantic (even though we were both young and attractive and chocked full of hromones). We just enjoyed eachother's company, laughed a lot around eachother, and always had a godd time. It never led down the path to anything else.

 

i have loads of male friends, but all of them are my friends through dave. if dave wasn't there, i don't know. i do know i've never been single for long. anytime i've been a friend with a guy, then come up single, they want more from the relationship. after all, the ideal partner is a friend, right?

 

As a man I have many friends that are women, some are pretty and some are not! They are all beautiful on the inside, and that is all that matters to me. I would never date one, unless they expressed interest in me. So far only one has and it has worked out well! For a man women can give you help and advice a man cannot!

 

my best friend is a guy...... he has a girlfriend and he hasn't come out or anything, but i think he's gay

i honestly have a ton of guy friends though, every now and then i get a strange attraction for one of them, but you have to just let that go, we're all just friends

 

of course.

 

Well, the best of my friends have always been guys - I don't really relate all that well to girls I think, anyway I have had this really really close friend for like 7 or 8 years and he moved away recently and has been expressing more than just a friendly interest in me since he left, so that is what has put a spin on my view of the whole 'just friends' thing. While he was in town, and we were practically joined at the hip, he never expressed an interest...ahh maybe he is jsut lonely and flirting - who knows??

 

yeah, I have a few really good girl friends.... Why would that be a problem?

I think it's really good, cause having girl friends that I can talk about anything to, has helped me to better understand my present girlfriend without having to ask about everything... But I love especially one of my girl friends, there couldn't be anything between us tho, we're just friends in a kinda weird way haha.... There isn't a part of her body I haven't touched, but we've never kissed Yeah, I love talking to her

I don't even know how much that makes sense... But yeah sometimes I just get along better with girls than guys

 

o man its so posible, my theory, for highschool at least, is that the title of dating can realy ruin stuff. my "friend" elise and i were realy good friends and as people began asking if we were dating we realized we were acting more researved around eachother and dident like it so i decided no dating, we are realy close like socialy and physicaly, not like sex all the time and stuff but we still make out and what not.
then there is my friend ann, she is in all honesty like a wife to me, we "fell in love" freshman year in highschool, and passed up our opportunity to date, its nwo halfway threw senior year and i couldent love anyone more than her.

sure people may say im affraid of commitment and im "playing" 2 girls, but they both know about eachother in fact they are friends and are fine about how i am around them.

i guess my point is the way you feel about someone is the way u feel about them title or no title, so keep everyone as friends that way your not attached and if something happends there is much less pain.

 

I definately think it's possible...I think it's a lot easier to be close friends with a girl than to be casual friends with a girl though...cause like someone else on here said, when you're close, it's like a brother sister thing...

But yeah, it's definately possible...and not even with effort.

 

The borders are an illusion, but not to be disregarded. Peace, LOVE, RESPECT, and Honesty are essential to a real lasting friendship.That's what I think. Sure, sexual attraction can and does exist in many situation, anything is possible, but what is important is the communication, with respect, between the friends. Just be forward with your feelings and respect the boundries. Be forgiving and learn to let life go on with that Universal LOVE that unites us all.
I've had many friends that are girls and enjoy there company so much. Some of them relationships were sexual at times, but the only ones that were purely sexual and not so much a real friendship turn out to be pretty disappointing in the end. Real friends are so valuble. I have friends that are girls and I really had feelings for them but realized that they didn't have the same feelings so our friendship remains a wonderful thing. Anything can happen. "Life is one big road with lots of signs. When you're ridin through the ruts dont complicate your mind. Don't buy your thought, put your vision to reality. Flee from Hatred, mischief and jealousy." -Robert Nesta Marley

Peace and Love, Jah BLESSINGS FLOW

 

Good question! I've been thinking about it myself and here's what I finaly got :
1) one of them has to be hetero and other homo;
2) they must be soulmates,without being interested in sex (which would be wierd as well)
3) Yes! man a woman can be only friends. My own experiense - I have a best friend (male) I know him for almost 10 years (we used to be in the same school),and no,I can't imagine us as a couple.Just friends

 

I don't know, I have a lot of guy friends, so yes, I think it's possible.