Poll: Can girls and guys be 'just good' friends?

Which one are you?

  • I can have a strictly platonic relationship with a woman.

    Votes: 332 64.6%
  • I'm the type of guy who just can't keep it in his pants however hard I try.

    Votes: 182 35.4%

  • Total voters
    514
Mate, I've just been through something that seems amazingly similar to what you are describing. She was even in my circle of friends too like you, which makes it even more difficult.

Best advice I can give you is play it cool. When you speak don't mention anything about you two as a couple or anything related to that, act as if you are getting on with life and enjoying it. I'm not saying that will bring her back to you, but it will give you the best chance.

Unfortunately when I was dumped I flipped out and acted in the worse way possible. Could I have gotten her back if I'd acted the way I've described to you? I really think so, which is painful for me to say and think about. :( Lost someone I loved and cared about more than anything in the world. :( Miss her every single day.

Yeh i've started to not bother speaking about it to her friends, just going to drop it all completely now. I saw her yesterday at our friends and was absolutely fine with her, in the past when we first split I was a bit of an idiot and let my emotions get in the way which was a bit stupid so I was just normal (or as normal as can be).

She's gone. Blates wants to go to uni and have a laugh with out having to worry about hurting you etc. On the plus side if it doesn't work she'll come running back for sex and stuff but only for that until she does find some one

Yeh I kinda gather this now she's gonna want to go off and have some freedom. Going to just not bother contacting her really, if she wants to speak to me then she knows my phone number. I've said my piece to her, she knows how much I care about her and stuff so not a lot I can do.

I'm missing that closeness though, when you go from seeing someone everday, or nearly everyday, to once every couple weeks it really hits home how lonely you can get.

Been there mate, believe me the best thing you can do is try to be a good friend and not to let it get to you (infront of her at least).

If it's meant to be you'll get back together again.

Yeh I realise this now, not achieving anything by moping about in front of her and our friends lol. Best thing I can do is just let it be, let her get on with whatever she wants to do and me the same, just see each other when we go out and not think about what she's getting up to at Uni.
 
I think it is perfectly possible to have good friendships with members of the opposite sex without it ever leading to anything further. That's not to say there definitely isn't an element of attraction there but that doesn't necessarily mean that it must develop into anything else.

Definitely. When I first met my female friend, she started flirting with me & in my ingorance I was flattered 'cos I fancied her (still do). Then I found out she was in a LTR & the feeling wasn't mutual. After a 'few words' I knew then where I stood. So we became friends & we have a laugh & a joke (we even talk about marriage! :D ) I see her now as my adopted 2nd little sister, she's trying to find me a proper GF! :D
 
I had to go with two as I'm an unfaithful ****. 2 years with a girl = sleeping with two girls(twice with one) and kissing about 6 other girls.

Decided to play it honest this time and tell her I wasn't happy and broke it off before seeing another girl I decided I liked. Long distance doesn't work in my opinion,or maybe I'm just thick lol.
 
Men can be just friends with women, I used to have plenty of girl mates, and I still do.

Things do get awkward when an actual girlfriend comes along however because the way I am around these friends must upset her and she sometimes feels threatened by them. So I tend to see a lot less of them than I used to!
 
At OP, yes. My best friend for years had been a girl. Yes she's really good looking, but we're not together or anything, just really good friends (i.e. there's loads of stuff we share together that no-one else knows etc etc). She managed to spend £10 of credit in two days just on texting me...... <3 having contract!

Closest friend currently is another girl and is THE BEST LOOKING GIRL ON THE PLANET EVER (genuinely), known her for years and though we're really close friends we don't want anything to happen! Love it how it is.

We've got this other mate who is always texting this girl, like atleast 2-3 times everyday usually. He says he has no interest in her whatsoever (although he used to, nothing happened, and now he says they are just friends) but we don't believe him....
I certainly don't text girls that often unless I am interested in them, and my mate agreed. We couldn't think of a single person either of us know that texts a girl everyday just out of pure friendliness.

I text girls out of pure friendliness loads every day :confused: 2-3 times is nothing! Last time I texted a guy mate was 9 days ago!


Writing this post without including BFF or BFFL was really hard!
 
For me depends on if i find them attractive and if we get on...if we do then its very hard to be just friends but saying that i have been in that position but ended up being friends with the girl or woman as much as i didnt want to.

For me it definitely depends on those 2 above...
 
[TW]Fox;14919369 said:
How does that affect your friendship though?

Perhaps I've misread the OP by him saying 'just good friends' meaning (to me) absolutely no sexy thoughts between either of them.
I firmly believe that one will be looking at the other thinking about what they would like to do to them.
I have many girl-friends but I'll even look at the munters and wonder what they may look like in stockings & suspenders and a trip to a beauty parlour.
 
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