Women and Men Can't Be Friends... According To A Recent Study

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According to a recent study women and men can't be friends, but not for the reasons of which you're thinking!

Women and Men Can't Be Friends... According To A Recent Study

Not because they have some underlying sexual desire for one another 100% all time time and it can't be turned off... It's because men and women have different kinds of friendships: they treat their friends differently and lean on them for different reasons.

Women and Men Can't Be Friends... According To A Recent Study

Men love their friends, but would never say so. They rely on each other to entertain each other, relieve stress, exercise, drink, have mostly meaningless, frivolous fun - and barely ever talk honestly and deeply about their feelings. Main focus here is lighthearted emotional relationships and assisting each other (however covertly) with certain social situations (wingmanning)...

Women, on the other hand, love talking about feelings, they need to talk about feelings. Women friends are often each other's therapists, advising, assessing situations, calling each other to complain, more often than not. Of course they have fun too...but the main focus is deep emotional relationships.

Women and Men Can't Be Friends... According To A Recent Study

When a man and a woman get together with the purpose of friendship - yeah they can have an emotional bond...but since their view of friendships is different they'll first try to do what they know and when that doesn't work - switch to what the other person's doing...constantly doing the thing that's not working...

They CAN have this surface friendship which doesn't fully fulfill either of them because they're both searching for different things in a friends relationship.

*Of course there are exceptions to the rule. Not all men and women are created equal. And that's something worth mentioning.

What do you think: Are Women and Men supposed to be Friends?

Do you have a very good friend of the sex you're attracted to? If so, how's it going?

Women and Men Can't Be Friends... According To A Recent Study

Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/men-women-can-never-friends-sex-has-nothing-do/

Women and Men Can't Be Friends... According To A Recent Study
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