Heterosexual men and women can never be "just friends".
By
annie
on February 08, 2007
There must have been a Seinfeld episode about this...
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Discussion (17)
Not saying it's necessarily easy. And it helps if one or both people are otherwise involved.
It helps if there's no mutual attraction
More like, it helps if there's no singular attraction and no mutual attraction.
As if my high school experience never happened!
Gosh, I hope this is false. A lot of my friends are heterosexual women!
i'm assuming this means they cannot be friends without at least one desiring the other romantically/sexually
they can if one is sufficiently out of the other's league such that the lesser never realizes their getting together is so implausible, they never begin fostering serious desires. this is most common in relationships such as the workplace
also, people in relationships can be friends with the other sex as they are restrained by monogamy; although, of course, desire is often still there, and sometimes acted upon, but usually repressed as cheating would damage their relationship with their friend or s/o. in most cases, a girl is only my friend because she's my friend's girlfriend and is as such out of bounds.
oops, i meant to say, "such at that the lesser realizes their getting together" not "never realizes"
this is premise of the film _When Harry Met Sally_.
I've been friends with a number of straight women. If your not attracted to someone it makes it much easier.
My best friend is a male. :)
I think as long as it's just friends, it's possible, but good friends, I'm no longer sure of... Experience has told me it is indeed impossible.
+1 w/ David Harris
How limiting, to think that one's social interaction is defined solely by one's sexuality.
If we carry this claim to its logical extreme, we get:
- No friendship between parents and their children of the opposite sex
- No friendship between brothers and sisters
- No friendship between teachers and students of opposite sexes
etc., ad absurdum.
yes, and what about people who are polysexual? No friends at all, to anything!
ihmo it can work for a while but generally disintegrates one way (sex) or the other (not friends)
My best friend is my dog!
so many of my friendships began with us being really attracted to each other, getting the sex out of the way and mutually realizing that we're better as friends. Once you know what's there and it's only sort of decent, the mystery and the tension are gone. Voila, friendships. Also, a disproportionate number of my friends are guys...