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Search Results: keep it platonic
Interview with a vampire: Feminism and gender from the male perspective, featuring a guy who thinks this all "sucks".
For most of my previous MyTakes on here I have focused on what I thought were injustices in this world when it came to gender equality. After my last recent few articles, I realized that it didn't really have the full...
Ez-Bri-Z
Editor Age: 46 Why is she acting like this?
Recently “broke up” with a friend with benefits, she claimed she met someone and wanted to get serious with this guy she just met. But then she kept pushing a platonic friendship with me (we met on the premise of being...
Luckylobo_taco5
Xper 5 Age: 38 Is this ok? Does he like me?
I live alone in a city many hours from my boyfriend. We have been dating for sometime already. There is a boy at school, who keeps on hugging me and holding my shoulders, arms etc. He also talks with me a lot and very...
Anonymous
(25-29) Why is friendship so important to this girl?
Had a steady friend with benefits (we met on the premise of friends with benefits) about a year ago. She made it a point to start doing more outside the bedroom, go out and do stuff together, cuddle and massages, stay the...
Luckylobo_taco5
Xper 5 Age: 38 Why do some people keep shipping cartoon and video game characters?
For the past few years people keep creating fan-fiction, fan art and tweets about what character is sleeping with who, or what characters are dating each other. The whole thing is crazy and creepy. What's wrong with these...
ALewis30
Yoda Age: 38 Stopping feelings from developing towards my freind, help?
I have a long term guy friend, we get on really well. There used to be a boundary between us on how deep conversations went as well as hanging out alone. Earlier in the year I drunk propositioned him. He said he just...
JC1981
Xper 5 Age: 45 Would I be lying if I said I never had a boyfriend?
I'll try to keep this as cringe-less as possible 🤡 So I had 3 boyfriends when I was In elementary school. The relationship was simply platonic. There wasn't anything romantic besides the fact that one of my "Ex...
Anonymous
(18-24) Should I wait around or is it over?
I was talking to this guy for a month, it was very new but every day was better than the next. We had a lot in common, and we matched each other’s energy perfectly. right from the beginning I knew he was leaving in a...
561Aloha
Xper 5 Age: 29 Does he want to date me? Or is this just a platonic relationship? Can I have your honest take on this? Should I take the initiative for a 3rd date?
There’s this guy at work who I think likes me. He does friendly-flirty banter with me, tries to touch me, non-sexually, tries to be around me at work, has complimented me, walked me to my car, stares at me. He asked me...
Anonymous
(30-35) My crush wants me to meet her friends. Is this a good or a bad sign?
I used to date this girl before my country went into lockdown. We got lost but as things began to settle down, we got back in touch. We text in a flirty manner and when we're together we're not acting as friends...
Anonymous
(25-29) Am I overthinking him acting weird?
Trying to keep this simple and direct; A week ago he told me it upset with when I doubted his love for me because he tries really hard to reassure me and that not matter what he did it never felt enough. He said unless...
Anonymous
(30-35) Can you be just friends with the opposite sex?
I've heard a lot of debate on this subject, and would love to hear individual opinions. As for me, I'm asexual and so it's never been an issue for me to see people in a strictly platonic way. I've had a few close...
Anonymous
(30-35) Why does he keep requesting pictures of me randomly and how do I get him to stop respectfully?
Ok, so I met a guy on Omegle (a video chatting platform to meet strangers) and he seemed really chill and I enjoyed our convo so we exchanged numbers. We started texting and at first I had assumed our friendship was...
Anonymous
(25-29) Guy friend might have feelings for me?
My best friend (male) has been my longest friend since we were kids, even before my boyfriend. Last year my boyfriend moved away, and so I started hanging out with few mutual friends and my guy friend. He's always been...
Anonymous
(25-29) Girlfriend texts with "friend" who sometimes writes sexual stuff to her, am I unreasonable?
My girlfriend texts with this "friend" that she has had sex with before. He sometimes writes sexual stuff to her, but she shuts him down or don't respond. I myself don't see that as a casual/platonic friendship, when he...
Anonymous
(30-35) If a guy you haven't seen in years wrote you letters, how would you feel?
Let's say some of the letters were romantic, some of them were platonic but all in all they were just to catch up and keep up on his life and him wondering about yours. He knows you're not a romantic option and he knows...
InventorofWarp
Xper 7 Age: 29 Am I (18) being friends with a 24 year old a bad thing?
I am using an app called bottled. I don't know if I'll be in a romantic relationship with this guy for a few reasons but the main thing is the age gap. Even if we keep the relationship platonic is this wrong? And I know...
Anonymous
(18-24) Confessions of a Ladies Man: What I Learned During Years of Being a Male Bestie
Being a Ladies Man I have spent decades as a man in the “Best Friend” zone. I go to clubs with groups of women. I spend alone time with women. They share with me their deepest darkest thoughts, secrets, stories. I have...
Why do I still feel something for a player type and how do I get over it for real?
Known this guy forever, we were friends even before we got each other's numbers. We traded #'s and then, well, stuff happened. He said some romantic things while saying he only meant it all in a platonic way. He said he...
Red_guitarist73
Xper 3 Age: 24 Guy friend acting weird all of a sudden?
I am friends with a group of guys and one of them (Jake) I felt there’s always been something more friendly than just platonic of you get what I mean. He knew I had feelings for him and I asked him previously what we were...
Anonymous
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