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Can men and women be platonic friends?  

ii_zee

6/23/2006 5:34 am

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In a recent poll I did on here, someone said that it was not possible for men and women to be just (platonic) friends.

I do believe that men and women can be just friends. I have many male friends who are not romantically interested in me, and I am not romantically interested in them. But I enjoy spending time with them and conversing, and value and respect their advice. Some are married, some are single, and some are in long term relationships. That's just me.

What do you think? Can men and women be platonic friends? Please comment on why you feel the way you do.
yes, men and women can be just (platonic) friends
no, men and women could never be just (platonic) friends
ruggedntenderaty
3666 posts 

6/23/2006 6:08 am

Ok, this one I can vote no on even though I can not vote on your last one. I know it should be that they can be friends, and I know is some cases it does or could happen if the man is in no way interested in the woman, but it would hurt her eventually that she has no attraction and maybe destroy her selfesteem. A man will desire almost anyone female at some point in the friendsship as that is a man, so it will not work. Seldom would you have a man and woman mature enough to even remotely discuss the depth of what is between a man and woman to make it remotley work especially if one is attatched... A friend would know the need and desire of the man and would be there with benifits so it is not a friend in most ways if it is though platonic as the woman does not care and share, so it just does not work at all.. One in a million that it could happen no matter how much the women say it can..

Here by the sea.

rainbowsanrain
2268 posts 

6/23/2006 7:19 am

Just wait till he gets my e-mail! It will burn his fingers!!!!!!

FeuDesAstres
1250 posts 

6/23/2006 9:34 am

Yep ... I've got friends that are just friends ... have been for decades. And it obviously works both ways for all of us in the group.

ii_zee
183 posts 

6/23/2006 6:09 pm

Why are your fingers burning 7?

Ingrid

bunnyb1968
160 posts 

6/25/2006 4:12 pm

yes i do have alot of male friends

ii_zee
183 posts 

6/26/2006 4:25 pm

I have just banned Skyblue from this blog. He continues to make rude, sexist remarks that are derogatory to both men and women. You will no longer be seeing his posts on my blog.

Ingrid

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