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I've always been one who believes that if there is no emotionally romantic connection or physical attraction, a straight male and female are capable of being good friends. I personally have close male friends whom I've known for years who I enjoy hanging out with and getting a male prespecive/advice on certain things. Though there have been 3 that have come to say they liked me, and there was a time where I thought I was falling for 1, we kept things mature in talking feelings out and all occasions except 1 did we test things out only to learn that we're meant to be friends. I'd also say that I have a somewhat equal amount of male and female friends and have 2 relatively close guy friends that I have NEVER had any interest in (and No, they are not butt ugly.)

However I've been seeing this question pop up a countless amount of times and I've been reading otherwise and seeing "rules" around the topic, like it's diffrent if the two are single/if both are in a relationship/or if one is single and the other isn't. I've also read that if one thinks that tgey are merly just friends... they're dead wrong as in some point of tge friendship one or tge other has developed a crush.

What's you're take on it? Are YOU able to keep a friendship with the opposite sex without falling for/fantasizing about him/her?