Is Female & Male Friendships Possible?

Well yeah, but if you rejected them in a polite and respectful way I don't think it would be the main reason though. The jealous BF is a classic one xD

Well I heard some guys often overlook the fact that girls are hinting . Not that I'm saying I don't believe that you are just friends but yeah just wondering.

Whether or not a friendship is possible depends on attraction, and one thing I've learned is that attraction is not a choice. You either develop feelings for a person or you don't.

If neither party has feelings for each other then a friendship is possible. If you develop feelings for your friend but they don't feel the same way then you have to decide whether or not you're willing to continue the friendship. The state of your attraction will help in this decision. You'll either get over your feelings of attraction in due course... or you won't.

In the later case the sensible thing to do would be to end the friendship instead of suffering the pain of orbiting them knowing that they'l never become your significant other. If you want to be a martyr and continue the friendship because you just care so much about the person that's up to you, but what you must never do is stick around in the hopes that they change their mind later. It's theoretically possible but I would never bet on such a thing happening to you. You'll only be drawing out your own anguish.

Thought I would share this:

Yup. It always seems to comeback to that first one.

I have to say yes, my best friend is a girl and we've never had feels of love or sexyness torwards each other in our 12 years of friendship. We're bros in a way or We're more like genderless old cats lol xD

This is the comment of the day for me, I love this! x3

I think it's very possible. It's tricky, because at some point feelings will start developing but they're often not permanent, it's all infatuation since you're spending so much time with that person doing fun things and talking about life.
It makes it easier to remember how much feelings can complicate things and how much easier it is just to stick being friends.
Also a lot of my (guy) friends are great at being friends but when I think about them as boyfriends I think they wouldn't do a very good job. I prefer to see them as big brothers.

Well, i think that if i wasn't as polite and respectful as can be, they wouldn't stay friends with me for years after...

lol thank you thank you *bows*

Only if she is older by 20+ years and/or fat.

Otherwise, impossible.

I agree with Prototype on the point that attraction is not something you necessarily have control over. If we had that ability, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion. In an ideal world, we'd be able to choose who we have feelings for and who we are friends with, but unfortunately that's not the case. I think it's possible but also difficult to obtain. We're living in an age where romance and relationships are littered all over the place in all forms of media and the idea of falling in love with your friend is a classic hollywood romance plot that is ingrained into our brain as a result of said media. There's also the whole brain chemistry thing going on.

That being said, the way I see it, attraction isn't a choice we have but friendship is. I'm sure it's common for people to have thoughts of 'what if' for their friends of the opposite sex but it's a choice that they deliberately make to be friends. In my personal experiences, I have friends that are female and I don't feel the urge to form an intimate relationship with them. However, I suspect that's because I'm not that close with them. The ones I am close with (or I should say were close with), I have had the luck of either developing feelings for them or vice versa. Some of those women, I am still friends with and great friends at that, and others not so much.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that attraction is not something you have control over but friendship is and pursuing/maintaining friendship depends on the people involved. I actually don't really know how I feel about this topic which might explain if my post seems to be all over the place. I mean...I hope it's possible?

Yes, it is possible. Not every guy wants the pants of every chick he knows.

I don't see a problem with it, i have plenty of female friends and not a single one of them gives me the feelings to want to be more.

i have as many friends who are women as i do who are men. (okay, to be fair, a few of them are gay, but still.)

I think it is possible to be lovers and friends with a person. How it can happen is probably not possible to explain shortly or easily. But what I can say is if both your sexual interest cooperate and so do your regular interests you can be lovers and friends. Course if you wanted it to be long term you would have to know their strengths/weaknesses, hate and dislikes and they would have to get to know yours. If you could both get along even with those undesirable traits from both sides, then yes, you can be lovers and friends.

Yeah, why not? Well, for me it's kinda easily because I'm lesbian, but then, I've got female friends, too. Just try to make the core of the friendship anything else than horny/romanticism and make sure your friend doesn't core that neither. That's all. Not really different from having a good relationship with your family to be frank.

A few problems that may arise:

- Before meeting a friend you fantasied with him/her (vice versa)
Oh, most likely there will be a horny core in the relationship. While as long there isn't romanticism there you can still be friends, just be prepared to be "friends with advantage" if things arise in that way, lol.

- Romantically feels over there beforehand
Depends of each person and the other person. If both feel the same, then why not date? If the other person is already in love with someone else you have your typically "I shouldn't" that is most likely correct.

Anyway, if the other persons doesn't feel the same for you or both can't date, do this: If you're feeling pain or the other person is feeling pain, take distance, you don't need to end the friendship, but try to avoid getting too near to that person. By other hand if nobody of both feels pain, try to shift the core of the friendship to anything else and everything should be ok.

Depends on the people tbh if one side falls for the other then no

Yeah, I think its possible. Though I kind of come from a different point. I dont have all that many friends who are girls, but the ones I do have are actually girls that I dated before. And any new ones nowadays are just people that I randomly meet on the internet.