Boy Friend or Boyfriend?
By chickabanana
@chickabanana (30)
United States
March 16, 2008 7:53pm CST
Is it possible to have a close relationship with a guy or a girl without crossing the line even once? I have never been able to. It just seems like if you are able to get along so well, why not take it further. For this reason, I would never date anyone who has a best FRIEND that is the opposite gender. Does anyone agree with this
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@nicholejade (2430)
• Canada
17 Mar 08
I don't agree with this at all. I have many guy friends that are close friends. I have more guy friends than girlfriends due to clashes in this same exact discussion. I love having good friends that are guys I don't think it's right for a girl not to date a guy that his best friend is a girl. What's the big deal? It's all about trust and if you trust the person you shouldn't be worried.
@chickabanana (30)
• United States
17 Mar 08
Thanks for your reply. I guess once you have been burned, it messes it up for everyone else. Im just curious to know how many of those relationships have crossed the line.
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@nicholejade (2430)
• Canada
18 Mar 08
I'm sure there have been many that have crossed the lines. But for me none have crossed the lines unless he and I wanted them to to give it a shot.
@megumiart (3771)
• United States
17 Mar 08
I'm like you. I have a hard time making friends with a guy without starting to like them more than a friend. But a lot of my female friends don't seem to have this problem. i think every person is different with this issue.
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@chickabanana (30)
• United States
17 Mar 08
thanks for your reply. Nice to know Im not alone. I thought I was the norm. I still think we are!
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@vipulchawla (2220)
• India
17 Mar 08
It seems like you are possesive about your friends and relations. Y won't you date with a guy who has a girl as his best friend ?? So being with a girl as a friend gives a wrong impression of that guy to you.. poor guy..
Well i don't think there is any harm with dating a person having a best friend of the opposite gender..
It happened with me. I have a friend ( a girl ). She has been my friend since my school days and was there with me in college too.. We used to be together. The relationship had been going well and i even thought of taking it further.. I proposed her but she denied saying she don't think of me the same way.. And perhaps my other friends used to think that she is my girlfriend.. So i was left with the irony with other people thinking of her as my girlfriend but she is just my friend..
So it just irritates with me with the fact that y don't people look into a relationship with a different view ?
She is still my friend and i am still looking to date another girl..
@vipulchawla (2220)
• India
18 Mar 08
Now thats being too selfish on your part.. You want your boyfriend to be only yours and should forget his relationships with others. So if he is your boyfriend he cannot be friendly to other girls.. Moreover if he becomes your husband then he should leave his family too.. Thats too much to demand for..
Oh by the way i don't decide based on my past experiences..Infact i want to forget away my past experiences and have new experiences in life..
Anyway .. best of luck for ur partner
@chickabanana (30)
• United States
17 Mar 08
I think you look into new relationships based on past experiences. You are supposed to learn and grow from past issues. I just don't want my man venting to another woman and talking about me while she strokes his ego to make him feel better. That is my job and that is what is going to bring us closer. If you take away that piece of the relationship, I beleive it weakens it. The same reason a man needs to leave his mom to have a great relationship with his wife, he needs to leave other women too. And how much greater is his bond with his mom?
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@JonFolse (28)
• United States
19 Mar 08
Im not gonna lie, men and women cannot be friends and thats it. Its too complicated. Like in the past, Ive had many girl friends that told me Im their "brother" or whatever, but further down in our "sibling" relationship, I found out that was just a ploy to get closer to me. I'd say, if the friend was homosexual, then it might work. This has happen to me, where I befriended a couple girls that were gay and nothing happened until....... I made a move!!! LOL!! I don't see a guys and girls ever being just friends.
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@nengs10 (3180)
• Philippines
17 Mar 08
It is possible actually. I have had friends who are experiencing this kind of special relationship. I must admit that it will be hard to handle in the future. Some of my friends have ended as lovers and couples. But I still believe that this is possible. It's all up to two people how they will manage their friendship after all.
@SONIA12MAN (238)
• United States
18 Mar 08
I have been in it for almost 9yrs now and there is nothing wrong with my boyfriend. I remember one day he came home and a new girl at work was trying to get his attention. She's very beautiful and well any guy will fall for her. He walk in he was so mad about it. I asked him what's the matter, why is he acting so mad. At the time I had only my son Alex with me and he was just one year Old. He went to his room and slam the door. Later he came down for dinner and we talk about some funny stuff and I told him about my day, how testing it was. He sign and said he got the worst. When my son was asleep he asked me if I trust him. I was shocked he had to say that. I joked about it, but he look at me and said "I'm serious do you trust me" . I said yep and he said okay there's a number that this woman at work slip in my pocket call her and tell her to leave me alone. I said what? I was shaking, because I did not know what to say to him. He explain how his agent has hire an new office assistant for him and the woman is trying to date him. I asked him do you love her? he just look at me and said ,"hell no what am I doing with woman her age...! this girl is 22 she's after money anyway just do the damn call". He was almost crying, he said he just feel so stupid that this woman will not respect him. I made the call and she was kind of trying to sound romantic after I let him say hello on the phone then I took the phone and said you are talking to his wife she hung up!! The next day I went to my boyfriend's office in his place most of the guys at work are his friends they knew something is wrong and I told them that their boss is not going to be there, because I am representing him for the week. I reminded them they are not to date co-workers and some of the guys already knew what I was talking about. Two weeks later the lady quit the job.
@shamsta19 (3224)
• United States
17 Mar 08
Disagree. I have always had girl friends and our relationship was totally platonic. I find it refreshing to have females point of view on situations in life. Just having a friend to hang out with, event though my girlfriend doesn't understand it.
@shamsta19 (3224)
• United States
17 Mar 08
I think the problem comes in when they are labeled "best friend," it was for me anyway.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
18 Mar 08
oh really? i think this is possible i have a guy bestfriend and he's been really tolerant with me. he's got his partner also and i turn to him most of the time for what i want to share...
My BFs have not thought of him as a threat too, well i sure think so.. hehe
@cripfemme (7698)
• United States
18 Mar 08
What century are you from? My best friend in high school was a guy, we never did anything. Also, why are you only concerned about the opposite gender, people sometime fall in love with best friend of the same gender, too. That happenened to me in coolege. If you need to worry about your person cheating with anyone you're with the wrong person.
@az03r4 (913)
• Indonesia
18 Mar 08
I have no idea about that.
But one thing I know for sure, that everybody must be have a close friend opposite to their gender. So, for me that's alright.
@Gesusdid (1676)
• United States
17 Mar 08
both men and women can become friends only however they have to see something in their friends that they wouldnt consider dating like a flaw , a pet peeve they cant stand or something like that , never will a man and a woman will like each other as friends and like everything about one another ..that right there something is bound to happen ..
@jenni7202 (1598)
• United States
18 Mar 08
I don't agree either. I have plenty of male friends with girlfriends. I've never crossed the line with them, and neither have they crossed the line with me. It is possible to just have a friend that is a guy, and stay nothing but friends. My boyfriend also has friends that are girls, but I know he loves me, and has never crossed the line with any of them.
@SONIA12MAN (238)
• United States
18 Mar 08
I have only about 8girl friends but i have over 45friends who are guys and I have had my boy friend for 8yrs. We all get alone very well and most of my friends are now his friends they even hang out on special day. They would come over and play video game with him I just look t them and sigh and go upstairs we have a friend com together every year and there are more guys than women there. my boyfriend on the other hand all is women friends have become my really closed friend. Now when there's a party i just have to call them and they will come out and help me with all the decoration and cook. we spend time shopping together and every week end that I'm off I hang out with some of my friends and his girl friends. I t is very nice and more like a large family it is so cool you should give it a try. coz I'm having fun so much fun. one day I went shopping and met one of his friends. she introduce me to about 7others girls the next thing we knew is that we are all having dinner together and talking about him and their boyfriends and husbands. You should fear such things if your boyfriends have not been honest with you. but I don't because my boyfriend is so peaceful and nice. He does not lie about any thing.
@madjax (14)
• United States
21 Mar 08
It all depends upon what you want to get out of the relationship in my opinion. If you are looking for someone to spend the rest of your life with, you might want to think about it a little harder then just feeling like more then a friend and saying "why not". On the other hand, if you are just looking to have some fun with a cool person that you get along with great, then by all means jump in head first.
@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
17 Mar 08
Sure its possible..I have MANY male friends that I'm close with and have been for yrs and we've never crossed the line....and I never could with them because they are like brothers to me and I'm like their sister so crossing the line isnt an option or even something to consider...HOWEVER there have been guys in my life that I've been good friends with that I HAVE slept with but it was never an issue because either we were just bed buddies or we actually dated, things didnt work out so we went back to being friends....
@MAAluv (39)
• United States
17 Mar 08
I basically agree with you. Although, me, myself, I've been in the position before...having a guy friend who was the greatest friend. We did everything together, from hangin out to partying to shopping, cooking. And so we did eventually take it to the next step, and thats when things changed. I ended up constantly asking, " why can't we go back to the way we were before we got together? " .. Because things changed, it took the " light " feel of the situation out of it. You know? Like, then we started havin to trip on stupid things, where, who, when, what, why?
So, I learned from that, that if I find a friend and we are so "perfect" - leave it at that. But another point that I'd like to make is how it is nearly impossible, just out of human nature, to be so involved with a person and spend so much time with them and for something not to happen eventually. In my opinion anyway, I believe it to be difficult.
@jeanniemay (1798)
• Philippines
17 Mar 08
I don't agree. I have a lot of boy friends and I get along with them so well. Two of them are my best friends. They knew me that well and I can share them secrets. Why not take it further? Relationship is out of the connection between us, that is how I see it. We are mainly focused on our careers. Of in the future destiny calls for another thing, who knows, it might sound like a perfect timing if it will.
I will still maintain the connection and will enjoy it for now!
@CheshireKat (564)
• United States
17 Mar 08
I believe it's possible. I have a few strictly platonic guy friends. I find that they are rather difficult to maintain. It generally gets to a point where they get the wrong idea, somehow. I don't try to mislead anyone, but sometimes my being nice/friendly ('Oh, you don't have any cash on you? I'll treat you to lunch' or something like 'You've got mail waiting at the post office, it's on my way home from work, I'll stop and get it for you') gets interpreted as 'I think we should date.'
We then have a talk about how that isn't what it means, or in my current situation I say 'You know I'm dating someone... So why would you think something like that?' and then after awkward conversations like that the friendship gets rather shaky. (Except for a few friends, as stated above.)
I've found for some reason that girls are more difficult to stay friends with. There seems to be more drama associated with them for some reason...
I agree with what you say about the 'best friend' being a girl thing. That would definitely make me uncomfortable. It's not so much that I'm posessive, I'm just paranoid that if he's spending all of his spare time around her, he'll lose the need for me. (I'm not sure that's a step up, from 'posessive' to 'insecure'.) Oh well.
Thanks for the interesting discussion topic :D
@tessah (6617)
• United States
17 Mar 08
i have male friends that ive crossed the lines with from time to time, and theyre still friends. and i have male friends that ive never crossed the lins with and am still very close with. it depends on the people in question. i dont see anything wrong with someone having friends of the opposite gender at all, and i surely wouldnt have the audacity to dictate who my partner could and couldnt care about and be friends with, anymore than he would think to tell me who i could have around in my life. jealousy stems from insecurities. if you trust the one yer with, you wouldnt be jealous or worry theyd betray you in any way. if someone has betrayed your trust, lose them, but dont make another pay for their crimes.