A girl and a boy can not be good friends forever unless they are couples.

This isn't true in my opinion. I have had many guy-friends in my day and still do. For the most part they have stayed strictly friends, nothing more. And yes, at times they have had a crush on me, or I with them but they/I have decided that we where better off as friends anyway. So, it is possible to be just friends with guys being a girl and visa verse. After marriage, I suppose it's the bitterness that stays with them afterward. In my own experience I have successfully stayed friends with a couple of my ex-boyfriends. One of them has never been angry with me after the breakup, nor me at him, and we still talk from time to time. One I had managed to stay pretty good friends with but he messed that up my bad mouthing a friend of mine. So in my opinion, it can go either way. It just depends on the severity of the situation, who you are dealing with, and under what circumstances.

Hi, friend..! I'm unable to agree with you, i think a boy & a girl can be a good friend forever even after they got married or they are in a love relations. as per my view the friendship is the base of all relation & a simple way to trust each other, & as per your logic i can tell you if a married couple can keep the friendship, then there least chances of misunderstanding, because by friendship they easily share there feelings, emotions etc. if you have another logic you can share....

I disagree with you on this subject. I have a male friend that I have known for many years and we have remained friends even though we have both been married. He has even lived with my husband and I for a few months a couple of times. I believe if your partner trusts you and knows that they love you and you love them, then it should not be a problem.

I do have few lady friends during my school years and most of that friendship is not that really the kind that is kindred just like with my male friends. We speak and have fun with some of my friends but I never had a really close friend relationship with a girl before so I can't really say that good friends needs to have relationship before their friendship can last. But my sister has a close male friends and until now they remain close friends even if my sister already had a baby and a partner in life and the same male friends of my sister also married now. Their relationship endures through times.

Well I think such relationships can exist. Unfortunately because of mistrust it doesn't often happen. I have a very good male friend, we have been close for about 7 years. We never had any relationship outside of friendship. He got married and we still managed to remain friends. I think this was because I made a special effort to befriend his wife and when they were having marital problems I didn't feature in them and I didnt take sides either. In fact I made a point of speaking to both of them and suggesting some things they could do together. I stayed out of their marriage but I will say this, I genuinly liked his wife. Unfortunately because they are from different countries their different cultures created irreconcilable differences for them. They are devorced today but I make a point of remaining friends with both of them.

I complete disagree with you.. no offense! ^.^ This is because I have a very good friend and yes we are best of friends as long as we can remember. And we did also share romance along the way that almost destroyed our friendship but in the end sometimes you figured out that maybe it's just like that, and you're not meant to be and friendship is too genuine to just throw it away. Right now, we both have a family of our own and still best of buds! Situations are different I guess. But I think it depends on people handling the situation.

I have 4 people I consider my closest friends & 3 of them are females. I am involved in a relationship & currently I live with my girl-friend. She knows of all the friends I have. In fact, my girl-friend came to be good friends with girls I'm friends with. They all refer to each other as my "other girl friend", of course not in all serious manner but more like a friendly fondness way. My girl friend & I have a very open relationship. And I don't mean that like we are free to see other people. I know there are stuff out there like that. What I mean by "open relationship" in our case is, we don't keep anything from each other. She practically knows everything about me & vise versa. She has access to everything I have, my email accounts, bank accounts, my phone among other things. I don't always have my cell phone on me when I'm home. I could be taking a shower & my phone rings, my girl friend would answer it & tells me, "your other girl friend's on the phone. What do you want me to tell her?"... Stuff like that. My friends know & respect my relationship with my girl friend too much for them to treat me any other way than a good "friend" should treat another. My girl friend knows that, too. She knows I wouldn't ever go beyond the boundries of simple yet good friendship with them. Yeah, we joke around & at times like good friends do, make fun of each other but I strongly believe with the right attitude, a male & a female could be a good friends.

Am the kind of guy who doesn't like my next wife to have so much notact with her ex male friends, it just doesn't sound right. Am a man, & i know how men thinks :D i gess that's the most important reason why most of friendship relations b/w female & a male ends. Eve got only one Adam to live with, he can't share it in anyway :P

When two people bring iron like moral strength to a friendship, they can help each other to grow, and the bonds of friendship between them will be stronger.