Nope.
Men and women can only be "friends" and hang out with no romantic/sexual component if one of them is fat, ugly or gay.
Anyone who denies this is lying to themselves.
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While I certainly will want to befriend the woman that I plan to spend the rest of my life with (afterall, I’m planning to spend the rest of my life with this person can’t exactly do that if we can’t stand the other), that doesn’t mean that I think platonic relationships between a man or a woman is impossible, espesially if the friendship is started when the kids are two or three as they have a habit of forming sibling-like bonds with the other and flatly disgusted with being romantically involved with the other as in their minds, their male/female best friend is more or less their brother/sister.
That’s just one example, there’s plenty of male-female friendships that never become romantic relationships, but overall Pauly is just wrong here
YOU might not be able to hang out with women unless you are ugly, fat or gay. Normal, reasonable people are able to acknowledge that the other person is attractive, that he or she is not interested in you, and then move on.
I have seven male colleagues who are very nice and friendly. We’re all in steady relationships, so we are pretty platonic towards each other, more like sibling, and help each other out with “love-problems”.
As Peacemonger373 says, you want to befriend the person you’re intending to spend life with. My husband is my best friend, and we’ve been together for over 32 years. As we’re over 50, we’re perhaps a bit more fat and ugly than when we met at 18, but the romantic/sexual component is still there.
Even fat, ugly and/or gay people manage to find love-interests, ya know.
I have to think that when you say, 'no romantic component,' you mean YOU don't want to fuck 'em.
So, no. You're just wrong.
@Thanos6 #26371
well, it depends upon the age in which they meet, if they meet when they were toddlers or so, that gives them enough time for them to form sibling-like bonds and that in turn develop a incest taboo similiar to the one most people develop with their blood siblings and as a result are often disgusted with any notion of romantic/sexual relations with their best friend who are their brother/sister all but in name.
if past toddler stage, it pretty much all just determine on those individuals and nothing else
@Peacemonger373 #26417
I guess since I don’t have any siblings, and don’t have any particular friendships from that age, the idea is a bit foreign to me. I’m sure it doesn’t help that I tend to view romance as basically just “friendship but more so.”
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