I don’t understand why most people seem to think that whenever a guy and a girl become close friends it automatically means that one likes the other. I really don’t understand why people can’t understand that a guy and a girl can be very close, but remain as friends. Granted many guys get close to girls, and verse visa, but I don’t think it’s fair that people generalize it like that.
Personally speaking, I’ve been able to maintain a close friendship with a girl, and we’ve been able to maintain our friendship, and draw a clean line at it. We both understand the fact that our friendship is where it’s at because we both don’t have romantic feels for one another; neither of us has a hidden agenda about for this friendship, and I think it’s great. Having a good friend of the opposite sex gives me an opportunity to hear what the opposite sex has say about different things and I have someone around to explain to me what my girlfriends thinking and why she’s thinking like that.
Maybe it’s just me being innocent, and thinking much simpler than what reality has to hold, but I strongly believe Guy + Girl ≠ Boyfriend + Girlfriend. Being able to be close friends with someone of the opposite sex has made things up to this point in my life much more interesting and enjoyable (in some ways…). Hopefully things stay the way they are, and perhaps get even better…