Can a Man and a Woman Really Be Just Friends?

Can a man and a woman be just friends? How many times have you read this article in Cosmo, or another affected women's magazine? My guess at least once a month, but here's the thing, none of these people have actually experienced this so I find it curious that they can call themselves professionals and write an article about it.

So let me start with this simple fact. Yes a man and a woman can be just friends, if they are both single and not involved in any other sexual relationship whatsoever because like it or not even though one or both of the parties may claim that there are no sexual feelings going on they are still creating a balance, a necessary balance that neither of them will comp to, natural role play. Wear this, buy that, your spending too much money. Your not fat, you are the man, no one can touch your massive abilities. All of these clever little idiosyncrasies that we all need in our lives, a little ego stroking that neither his guy friends provide him or your female friends give you. Those little conversations you can only have with a best friend and/or lover of the opposite sex.

It's not easy, in fact I think it's harder than a regular relationship. Toting that thin line between friend and wife, I say wife because my other friends say that's what we have, a marriage because we seem to have everything but sex and like a wife I catch myself getting jealous of a mention of a girls name and I can hear the jealousy in his voice when I've went some where or done something without him and especially with another guy. There's always a need to know where the other is and why and we're always explaining without being asked, however if either of us don't explain other than it just being habit it's no big deal.

Fights, oh we have them like a married couple on the brink of divorce which makes them so much worse because there's nothing so concrete as a marriage to hold it together. Lucky for us we don't really fight that often, we like to save it up and make it a big production.

It's been 6 years since we met, since we dated so briefly but I knew I needed him in my life, some how I made that decision and stuck with it. I drove the car for the first year of our relationship. Then he decided to take over, we're unconventional to say the least. We know it; sometimes we even talk about it. Some times we love it and sometimes it makes us completely crazy. I can tell you this when you are committed to a man even platonically you are always looking for ways to work around it not with in it and with the same time, and energy put into a best friend relation with a man as there is in a sexual one I simply do not have the energy to go out and find someone else when I am so comfortable with who he is and who we are and I know he feels the same, and to be honest if we just started sleeping together we could put meaning to it all but who wants to risk that with so much at stake.

So can a man and a woman be friends, are we really just friends? Some would speculate, some would deny and some would find it easier to agree. Friends, as long as all we have is each other. Try to balance 2 men demanding all of you attention and see how well that works out and then decide who you give up.