Re: Platonic Relationship, can men and women be just friends
odd enough i always knew platonc relationship to be a love or infatuation involving one.
Re: Platonic Relationship, can men and women be just friends
I guess i have never felt this way so far so i cant comment
will you be able to confess this to your partner?
women are proid of the fact that the partner will only discuss 100% of his life happening with them.and no one else.
They get hurt to know someone else has reached the same level in partners life
I love my wife dearly and will never hurt her, there are emotions, commitments and confusions, life is complex, I found another job, I get lunch invites from her, but have not accepted. If I was a free man and was to go back in time, for certain I will desire for my wife to still be my partner, what I would change is my naivety that I can conquer temptations and choose to avoid them
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Why have you stop considering your wife as your partner..?
What is the difference in these two relationship for you?
I consider them the same.
Re: Platonic Relationship, can men and women be just friends
Why have you stop considering your wife as your partner..?
What is the difference in these two relationship for you?
I consider them the same.
No I have not stopped considering her to be my partner, I like partner better. You start considering her to be your wife than you run the risk of taking each other for granted and stop putting an effort into the relationship, I think also the Imam that married us was not registered so Islamically she is my wife, legally she is my partner.
Re: Platonic Relationship, can men and women be just friends
Yes, I think it's very possible. Having worked with mostly men, I immediately know who I can friendzone, which is about 99%. Maybe I just don't like them. I have worked with too many to be enamored with their personalities.
Re: Platonic Relationship, can men and women be just friends
yes men and women can be just friends and can remain like this forever.
i have many examples.
and as far as the chance of falling in love with any of your friend,yes that can happen too but if love is meant to happen then it will happen for you be it with any of your friend, your co-worker,your cousin, your relative,your neighbor,your friend's sibling, or someone you just bumped into the party last weekend. so the notion that some people have that if you have a friend of opposite gender than you would definitely fall for him/her is incorrect.
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never... thats what our religion say n i agree
Platonic Relationship, can men and women be just friends
Yes ,they can be friends but most of time the other feelings come into the friendship.I myself had so many male friends but to some extent i think this friendship must be in limits and we should talk less.Making someone your habit take things towards wrong way.this is my experience and i don't know about others..I feel there must be less talking but that can last forever if both are true and wish to be friends forever.
Re: Platonic Relationship, can men and women be just friends
... With benefits ... Yes
Re: Platonic Relationship, can men and women be just friends
Yes, I think it's very possible. Having worked with mostly men, I immediately know who I can friendzone, which is about 99%. Maybe I just don't like them. I have worked with too many to be enamored with their personalities.
Just curious, how do you immediately know you can friendzone them if youre basing it on personality? To assess someones personality/character takes a bit of time, right? And arent feelings/attraction supposed to "grow" over time or something? So how do you know it immediately?
And in what ways are the 1% different from the rest?
Re: Platonic Relationship, can men and women be just friends
Yes, of course platonic relationships are possible.. If they weren't pretty much everyone here would be sleeping with everyone else, wouldn't they lol
There are 'risks' in terms of falling for someone but to say it's never possible to have a friend of the opposite sex without developing feelings is ridiculous..
Re: Platonic Relationship, can men and women be just friends
I have a lot of friends who are girl and I keep it platonic by creating some sort of shield around them. I hang with them, I talk to them, we go for lunch together and things like that but I don't open up to them, I don't tell them all the time what I am really thinking or connect with them at emotional level. We usually talk about school, other things and family and movies etc.. So it has never been a problem for me. But if I were to open up to them and connect a bit more, then sure I would end up sleeping with all of them LOL
or there are some girls that even if I open up to them, I can't imagine developing a romantic relationship with them .. that would just be weird
Re: Platonic Relationship, can men and women be just friends
Yes, of course platonic relationships are possible.. If they weren't pretty much everyone here would be sleeping with everyone else, wouldn't they lol
There are 'risks' in terms of falling for someone but to say it's never possible to have a friend of the opposite sex without developing feelings is ridiculous..
As soon as one party feels an attraction, that relationship technically cannot be called Platonic, It does not have to be physical or even verbalized. In the study that was conducted a large number of participants never verbalized their feelings to anyone.
Re: Platonic Relationship, can men and women be just friends
I am going to sound super old fashioned here, I think its hard for heterosexuals to be friends if they are both single, nice and attractive.. but if one is married it's really not hard to have guy friends whom you are not attracted to at all. I am good friends with alot of my husbands friends and there is obviously absolutely NO attraction whatsoever. but if i were single and were friends with them, maybe i would have been attracted.
Re: Platonic Relationship, can men and women be just friends
I am going to sound super old fashioned here, I think its hard for heterosexuals to be friends if they are both single, nice and attractive.. but if one is married it's really not hard to have guy friends whom you are not attracted to at all. I am good friends with alot of my husbands friends and there is obviously absolutely NO attraction whatsoever. but if i were single and were friends with them, maybe i would have been attracted.
I kind of think that plenty of unattractive people fall for each other also, in fact they might find it easier as attractive people get picky.
Re: Platonic Relationship, can men and women be just friends
yes its as possible as keeping a gas canister next to BBQ grill. Everything will remain OK till the first spark and then
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Re: Platonic Relationship, can men and women be just friends
Dating coach below.
He’s soooooo pretttyyy!!! Regardless of his prettiness, I think the dude is being realistic and sane.
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Thanks for posting, used to think exactly like this until I fell for my best friend, never did or will do anything about it but my conscience does not feel god about it, from experience I can say better to avoid temptation than to overcome it.
Re: Platonic Relationship, can men and women be just friends
yes!!!...its possible!!...i have seen many guys and girls jst being friends...altho maybe in long term they end up in a relationship.
but personally, i do have a best buddy...and we do happen to be best of friends ....and as rightly pointed out by someone, tht either both or one of them may develop feelings, it did happen b/w us as well.
but since i didnt budge and made it clear tht it cannot go beyond friendship, he respected tht fact and eventually i also helped him patao a larki :P
so yeah.. we r really very good friends MA....and m glad tht he is married and settled with the gal tht he patoed hehe :D
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What reason did you give him?