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Can women have any truly platonic male friends?
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28-01-2020 11:34am#1In your experience is it possible for a woman to have any entirely platonic male friends?
That's not to say you don't have male friends you've never done anything with. But rather male friends who you know would never try initiate anything no matter what the circumstances.
I recently had this discussion with my girlfriend, who at first was adamant that she has had numerous platonic friends in the past. But when we actually got through them all only one had never made some sort of pass at her. The rest were justified by her as being drunken half-hearted efforts i.e. in the taxi on a night out, alone walking to the next bar, rather than being pre-meditated attempts in her eyes.
So in the end it became clear that these male friendships were only platonic because she kept them that way, rather than it being a mutual feeling on the men's part.
This was also apparent when i asked her to note how many of her platonic male friends mysteriously go missing when she has a boyfriend
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So what do you think in your experience? Can it ever be truly platonic between similarly-aged, reasonably-attractive men and women?0
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In your experience is it possible for a woman to have any entirely platonic male friends?
That's not to say you don't have male friends you've never done anything with. But rather male friends who you know would never try initiate anything no matter what the circumstances.
I recently had this discussion with my girlfriend, who at first was adamant that she has had numerous platonic friends in the past. But when we actually got through them all only one had never made some sort of pass at her. The rest were justified by her as being drunken half-hearted efforts i.e. in the taxi on a night out, alone walking to the next bar, rather than being pre-meditated attempts in her eyes.
So in the end it became clear that these male friendships were only platonic because she kept them that way, rather than it being a mutual feeling on the men's part.
This was also apparent when i asked her to note how many of her platonic male friends mysteriously go missing when she has a boyfriend.
So what do you think in your experience? Can it ever be truly platonic between similarly-aged, reasonably-attractive men and women?
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In your experience is it possible for a woman to have any entirely platonic male friends?
That's not to say you don't have male friends you've never done anything with. But rather male friends who you know would never try initiate anything no matter what the circumstances.
I recently had this discussion with my girlfriend, who at first was adamant that she has had numerous platonic friends in the past. But when we actually got through them all only one had never made some sort of pass at her. The rest were justified by her as being drunken half-hearted efforts i.e. in the taxi on a night out, alone walking to the next bar, rather than being pre-meditated attempts in her eyes.
So in the end it became clear that these male friendships were only platonic because she kept them that way, rather than it being a mutual feeling on the men's part.
This was also apparent when i asked her to note how many of her platonic male friends mysteriously go missing when she has a boyfriend.
So what do you think in your experience? Can it ever be truly platonic between similarly-aged, reasonably-attractive men and women?
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