...at least, from the girl's perspective.
When a man and a woman meet each other and eventually develop a friendship, weird shit starts to go down after a while. No, not weird shit; normal shit. You see, many guys have a very hard time acting like a relationship with the opposite sex is platonic.
They have done studies on this. In an experiment with pairs of "platonic" female-male friends, where they individually (and anonymously and confidentially) asked each of the friends questions about their co-ed counterpart, men more often than not admitted they were attracted to their female friend. They were interested in a romantic relationship. Men also assumed that their female friend was attracted to them, more than the female in that relationship assumed that the male was attracted to them. Even if she wasn't. (And I don't know what girls have against wanting a romantic relationship with their guy friend).
In short, most males tend to be attracted to their female friend (or at least the one they'd go do a friend experiment with). But most of those females see the relationship as completely platonic, and they're fine with that.
Some of you on this website ask questions about whether your male friend likes you, so chances are, he does. It's pretty safe to assume that he wants to be more than friends, simply if he likes spending time with you. If he goes out of his way to spend time with you or ask you to spend time with him, then yeah, he likes you. So when a guy acts like this, and you do absolutely nothing to show that you even have a hint he likes you, this is his reaction:
So girls, next time you tell someone that you and a guy friend are "just friends", pay careful attention to what may be a brief wishful, wistful look on the guy's face, before he stutters and says "Oh, uh, y-yea, just friends of course."
Disclaimer: not saying you have to let the guy out of the friendzone, I'm just saying that 90% of your guy friends love you.
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