Can Guys/Girls Be Just Friends?

[Ellin]

Wondering what everyone believes here. 

Feel like guys/girls will have different opinions. 

[foo]

Of course

[Avaith]

I don't see any reason why they couldn't be. I'm a girl myself and I have plenty of male friends.

[Elly_]

Of course

[pyofriend]

I think it probably depends on the situation both people are in. If they are both single and have similar looks, then I think it's only a matter of time before something happens. It's only natural that you start to become fond of each other after spending (a lot of) time together. Sure, first it might just be friendship, but I think it's close to impossible to not have romantic feelings after a certain period of time.

 

If both people are already in a relationship then it will probably be fine.

[FactMan]

Uh of course... it concerns me that there's people that think that nope.

[Ulmicola]

Yes, of course. Ever since I was born, I've had more girl friends than guy friends (or, at least, have been closer/have found easier to relate to my girl friends than my guy friends) and I don't think about sleeping with them 24/7. Sure, since they all are nice people who are also quite good looking, it's not like such thoughts have never crossed my mind, but I know for a fact that some of them have thought about sleeping with me much more often than I've thought about sleeping with them, and even then, it's not like they haven't been able to, you know, keep being friends with me despite their awful taste in men.

 

If you think two people of the opposite sex that aren't 100% gay can't be friends, you're wrong.

[Suzy Quatro]

After puberty I'd say most of the times that type of friendship (heterosexual boy and girl) isn't genuine at all unless you were a very superficial person and your friends had great personalities but weren't physical attractive to you at all. I mean if you're interested in the opposite sex and you get along very good with this certain person, and assuming both of you are more or less the same in terms of looks it would be weird if you at least didn't consider dating your friend (specially if both are single). So I think it's no coincidence that the most attractive boys or girls are the ones who end up having the most 'friends' of the opposite sex compared to their less good looking counterparts.

 

In my case I have very few female friends but I'm fine with it and like half of those would be some ex-girlfriends.

[KaniPi]

Wondering what everyone believes here. 

Feel like guys/girls will have different opinions. 

 

Platonic relationships are pretty rare these days. If you're physically attractive, the chances of them wanting to be just friends with you are very very slim.  I guess its only possible, if you have someone already, or you make it very obvious that you only see them like a brother/friend, but that doesn't mean they will stop liking you. From my own experiences, I think its mostly men that think if they communicate well with a girl, she is flirting with them, when that isn't necessarily the case, which leads to them having different ideas. Basically if you're pretty/hot, no straight guy especially single wants to be friendzoned.

[Chic Chick]

Yeah, and anybody who says otherwise is horny or lying.

But honestly, its a rare thing to achieve. Even I have like, zero guy friends irl 

[SummerTaffy896]

What about gay people? Many straight girls have a gay male best friend so clearly they can be friends. Not every straight girl would be attracted to her straight male friend and vice versa.

[TheHulk]

Yeah but when they get lonely, they start to notice that they only depend on each other