Can men and women stay friends?

[Oregondaisy 2,020]

Well since it's been a month and a half since I started that thread, things have settled down nicely. We didn't see each other for a couple of weeks and then one day he texted and and asked if I was home. He stopped by and I made him a sandwich cause I know he runs around all day to different jobs and rarely stops to eat.

I started ( briefly) dating someone else, and he knew that. We discussed relationships one time and he said he knew he wasn't ready for one (he was hurt badly from his last one) and he was glad that I was smart enough to know it would ruin a good friendship if we tried to be anything more.

Now we are close friends again.

I noticed some other threads in this Mars and Venus forums where people where doing the friends with benefits thing and that just isn't me.

[newmebithebypass 713]

here's my take on it. i have a friend who has had 1 relationship and is constantly i mean constantly lonely. and when ever he makes a new female aquantance he instantly thinks there is a possiblilty that they should date because the universe owes him a girl friend or something. its super sad and super creepy. also he gets angry at the world anytime his close female friends get into relationships because he missed his "chance" even though we've all told him dude no not in like a million years. so yeah men and women can be friends actually most if not all my friends are guys because i am a gamer and typically gamers are dudes but when you have a friend that wont take a hint it sucks

[Recycled 2,182]

Every single word Billy Crystal said in the movie When Harry met Sally about men and women being friends is taken word for word right out of the Men's manual on Women. Absolutely true.

[Recycled 2,182]

I always chuckle when women ask a question about what men think.......and then dispute the answer that men give.

So it continues................

[SalOdyssey 441]

For what it's worth, some of my closets friends are women. These are women who I've confided in, and they've confided in me.

These are women I highly respect, and who I believe respect me. I have about 4-5 very close women friends compared to 1 solid guy friend. For some reason, I just seem to jive with women easier.

[rolosmom7 740]

Absolutely possible. My best friend is a man - and there's 0 sexual interest. He's like my brother, it'd be creepy. He and my husband have actually known each other longer than I've know either of them. When I was younger and liked to party a lot, even drunk off our asses, there was never anything there. So, yes. It's definitely possible.

[Recycled 2,182]

Sure, as Billy said.....men will be just friends, but "only if they don't find the woman attractive......" ya gotta go watch the movie and write it down. Like it or not, it's true....... Men are not complicated. If they find a woman attractive......they don't wanna just be friends.....simple. And what women think they know about men doesn't really matter, cause they are wrong. Ya didn't ask if women could be just friends....ya asked if men could too. It's primal......If we are attracted to a women.....it's what we do.!!

Oh, and any guy that says they have women that are just friends.......and they find the woman attractive......it just means they don't have a shot with that woman. If they did....they would go for it.

LOL.......this oughta stir things up....