Can men and women be friends without one having a crush on the other?

United States
December 15, 2011 7:46am CST
It seems that majority of the time when a man and woman are friends one usually has alterior motives. That is why the friendship hangs on. In case one day things change and now romance is an option. Women often have a hard time believing this, but I ask this of those women. How many of your guy friends would actually turn you down if you were to hit on them?
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@bubuth (1815)
• Philippines
4 Mar 12
i think it is possible because i also experience it. I have a very close friend before, we are always together. He become our family friend. He always visit me here in our home. My family though he will be the man that i will live forever together but for us we are just a close friend. We are comfortable to each other and if one of us have a problem, we always listen to each other and help each other.
• Malaysia
17 Dec 11
I think most times friendship between a man and a woman start as normal but there may come a time when their friendship may turn into something else. Sometimes they decide to explore it and see where it leads to. It might or might not work out. If it works out, all the better and if it doesnt, they keep on being friends because now they know they cant marry each other. But the truth is, anything can happen.
• Philippines
16 Dec 11
I think man and woman can also be just friends. But if this would be love sooner, then nothing's wrong with that as long as they are ready to face the consequences and sacrifice the friendship in the first place.
@wiguen (551)
• United States
16 Dec 11
i do think it is possible, i have friends and nothing never happen, we are good friends and respect each other for me that's what matters.
@davaome (1826)
• Philippines
15 Dec 11
I am a guy, and I have some female friends that have told me that they want to be more than "just friends' but I declined to most of them because, I only seek friendship with them and have no desire to have a intimate relationship.
16 Dec 11
I had a similar experience. All I had to do was to tell her that we are only friends and we'll stay forever this way. And now we are friends. Nothing more than that. If your friendship is true, you'd explain the truth and stay a friend.
• United States
15 Dec 11
Yes! I have plenty of male friends. I actually prefer male friends over female friends because they can be more fun. I do have some female friends, but that's only because they aren't like other women. They don't feel that they have to impress anyone, and they don't pretend to be someone that they aren't.
@fantabulus (4000)
• India
15 Dec 11
Yes man and women may be friend but after marriage because before marriage if both are friends and the same age then anyone can fall in love. But after marriage women know her husband is everything for her and other man are only brother or friends. hahah....
@Mashnn (4501)
15 Dec 11
I think it can happen. I have seen many friends who are so close to each other yet each one of them has his or her own boyfriend but it will depends on what type of relationship you are looking for.
15 Dec 11
Problems like these arise either due to a need of companionship or wanting to be more closer to a person. The result all depends on whether the partner is willing to humbly accept it or skilfully deceive it. A good friendship could go horribly wrong by taking a step too soon or a greedy friendship could turn just right when in a relationship, the only thing that you can do is hope you take the right decision. Always think twice, is it really worth it? We've been given the sixth sense for a reason. So, let's adaptively change our lifestyle and settle our egos to the modern world.