Relationships

What defines a person to be an acquaintance versus a friend?

What is the definition of a friendship? Is it strictly platonic? Can it have room for interactions that are sexually or romantically inclined?

Can people of the opposite sexes truly be platonic friends with each other? Or just acquaintances?

Me: *just killed somebody*

Acquaintance: I'm calling the cops!

Friend: So, where do you want to hide the body?

I heard a good description the other day.

They are your friend if they would be hurt if you said they aren't a friend.

As for the other stuff, depends on the person really. There are some that can fuck and slip back into platonic friendship with zero intention or interest in fucking or pursuing a sexual or romantic relationship. I'm not that type of person, no shade tho to each their own.

But I can get territorial so I choose not to fuck friends, or remain friends with ex's.

Once I friendzone a guy I can be.

I typically don’t have male friends because I’m too sexually curious when I get along great with someone.

But I can be friends with someone that I’ve lost interest in or don’t find attractive anymore.

I think of acquaintances as anyone who I work with, since we rarely hang out outside of work.

I don’t have many male friends at all. I think I only have 2 and they are better as friends because I know how their dating history has been.

Posted by saggurl88

Once I friendzone a guy I can be.

I typically don’t have male friends because I’m too sexually curious when I get along great with someone.

But I can be friends with someone that I’ve lost interest in or don’t find attractive anymore.

I think of acquaintances as anyone who I work with, since we rarely hang out outside of work.

I don’t have many male friends at all. I think I only have 2 and they are better as friends because I know how their dating history has been.

This is sort of similar to how I am! Every time I make "friends" with men we end up having some sort of sexual or romantic thing and it's annoying because I wish I could be just platonic with them but it never pans out that way. In terms of being friends with someone I've lost interest in, I've never really been able to be that way... Dunno why.

Posted by Wizardz

I never understand why people say that people of the opposite sex can't truly be platonic. Sounds so limiting to believe that. Most of my friends are female. If we have a moment where we feel intimate we just smile at each other and know that we want to keep it as friends..

Yes you can have friendship with romantic or sexual overtones as long as you are both happy with and understand and agree on the situation. I think it's a psychic thing where you both know you are comfortable with how the relationship is. If there is discordance then you need to step back and be more strict about being purely platonic.

I think you know when someone is a friend rather than an acquaintance. It's nothing to do with what you do together, for example you can go out with some work colleagues but they still won't necessarily feel like friends or you can see someone once a month for 10 minutes but they feel like a friend. It's to do with trust and mutual appreciation and a feeling of shared benefit in knowing each other

I mean I wonder if this is a generational thing because I've seen so often that men and women my age can start out as friends but in most cases they end up hooking up anyways. But I haven't seen that in older generations. Maybe has to do with our millennial/gen z social ways?

Posted by LadyNeptune

I heard a good description the other day.

They are your friend if they would be hurt if you said they aren't a friend.

As for the other stuff, depends on the person really. There are some that can fuck and slip back into platonic friendship with zero intention or interest in fucking or pursuing a sexual or romantic relationship. I'm not that type of person, no shade tho to each their own.

But I can get territorial so I choose not to fuck friends, or remain friends with ex's.

When I was single, every time I made friends with a guy, we'd hook up at some point down the line whether it was early on in the friendship or later on.

I can't be friends with exes. Just doesn't work for me. When it's over it's over.