Friendship between man and woman. Is this possible?

Thank you for the Best Response - and letting me re-find this discussion. I was looking for it just this weekend, I've now bookmarked it in case I want to refer anyone to it.

I have had many male friends over the years and never had any problems, no difficulties at all. I have a male partner I work with and have been working with for 5 years and we are best friends.

I disagree with you. I have many male friends, that I do not feel passion for and do not sleep with. I have a lot of men that I work with and some that I have gone out and had drinks with after work and nothing has happened sexually. I feel you have to be secure enough with yourself to know what you want or what you have at home not to stay out of your relationship.

I firmly believe that it is possible. I mean, I have a number of guy friends and I have no problem with them liking me in a romantic way because we see each other more like a sibling not more than that.

my best friend is a male we have been friends for over 5 years and still going strong .he is like a little bro to me,and we just like to enjoy most of the same thing. yeah its possible.

It is possible, very possible. I have several male friends and it's just that friendship, but perhaps because they see me as an older sister..lol..you have to be very clear at the start of the relationship to avoid misunderstandings. Good luck.

It's surely possible having a good oposite gender friendship. I used to have many friends with oposite gender when i was in school. And now I also works in a company where there are more my oposite gender friends. And i comfort with the enviroment. So far there is no problem, we make friends is near by one another and we are each other respect.

Of course it is possible, the fact that some people are able to achieve this friendship for a lot long time prove positive that it is possible, their is a principle to having a good relationship, you need to understand that, cos if you do, you will find it easy to cope with your friend- male or female

Your friend's bad attitude, it seems to me, sets him up for failure in his relationships. My husband thinks friendship between a man and a woman is possible. He has been my best friend and I his for over forty years. Your friend may just have wrong expectations.

I think it is definately possible, but yes ot is difficult. One of my best freinds is a guy and we have been freinds fir around 20 years.thru times of both of us being single, to one of us having a partner, or both of us having partners.The problems have never been with us, only problems are partner being jealous or not under standing.

I think it's very possible and perhaps not even so difficult for men and women to be friends. Sometimes people exaggerate the differences between males and females, I think -- the human link is stronger than gender. Friendship is possible whenever you can relate to someone and care about them; surely men and women can relate to and care about each other. Male/female friendships become difficult when one party wants something more than friendship, but even in those cases the friendship may have been real enough before one person "crossed the line." Personally, I've had some very good female friends in my life so I'm glad I never shut the door on that type of friendship like your friend has.

i believe it is very possible as i have had a good relationship with two ladies in my entire life without any strings attached and we are still friends tioday it has proven very good and no t stressing

It is certainly possible that there can be true friendship beweena a man and a woman. I have seen so many such cases in reality. Happy mylotting!

I so think like you. I am a female and am married. I have many guy friends and my husband has many female friends. With us we trust each other and we in fact talk to each other about what is going on when it comes to our friends. I feel that talking like this really helps our trust issues cause we both use to have them and after starting to talk we come to find out that we could trust each other because there is nothing going on. I will say that sometimes it can be difficult but is not impossible. I just think it depends on how you can handle your feelings. We are friends with this one couple too and they seem to find it possible to be friends with us too and have no problems with any feelings there. I just think it depends on certain people and that is that. Happy Mylotting

Well I have many friends with whom I have true friendship but there are some of people who cannot keep their friendships straight and fall in love and spoil the relationship. Somehow I feel lucky to have straight friends.

It could be possible but it is very hard to do for alot of people. Most of the time it turns into more than that. My husband is my best friend.

yes i think so that is possible. it is possible for me so i think it is possible to others as well. i have a freind since high school, and we both joined the choir at our parish church after high school. now that we are both 38 years old, he works in a cruise ship and still have communication through email and chat. it is possible maybe it is difficult for his wife and my ex husband doesnt understand at first but it was just plain friendship. some people inject something on it but.... maybe other friendship turns into lovers and ends up parting ways.... but ours is really good friendship.

I think it is possible, but you do have to be very careful, feeling can change..My daughter has many friends that are boys, and the first thing you need to do is for both to agree, that the relationship is nothing more than just friends..Some can do this, but not all. I also have friends that are men, mostly because they were friends of my husbands. But even then, I act differently with my friends who are women, than ones that are men..For instance, I can talk about personal feelings with a girl, but never a guy..

Hi there Zenith2007 long time no see! I do believe that men and women can be friends. I hve a very good male friend and myself and I am female. What I think doesn't work is when a male friend and female friend decide to start a relationship and then it ends that they can go back to being just good friends.

i think its possible because i do have a lot of guy friends. when i was in college most of my classmates were guys so they become my friends. it really depends on the person if he will give malice to the friendship you have with your friend who is a girl because once you do you already ruin the friendship. but sometimes we cannot avoid that both the boy and the girl can be develop into something special and fell in love with each other, the best example is myself. my husband and i were best friends until we realized that we do love each other.