“I’m sure there are women that are selfish and want to torment men for their egos (like there are men that drag a girl a long who cares for him) but to a woman, the friend zone isn’t a punishment. It’s saying that she cares about you even if it’s not in a romantic/sexual way. 

Women are relationship creatures. We love talking and sharing with our friends and hanging out. When a friend asks us out, we want the friendship to remain the same if we say no. We don’t want to lose our friend or best friend over it. From a woman’s perspective, when a guy asks you out and you say no to him and you never see him again and he just leaves like hat, it actually hurts you. It tells you that there was nothing good enough in you that he wanted as a friend; he just wanted the physical/sexual part. I have lost several guy friends who asked me out and I said no and it broke my heart when they never talked to me again. Granted I was young, but at the time I didn’t understand “I will always be there for you” meant “I would love to always be there for you if this turns romantic/sexual but if this goes to crap or I stay in the friend zone, you will never see me again.” So I opened up to those guys thinking they would always be there. It shattered me when they left. As I’ve gotten older I understand why. I couldn’t do that either. But my desire to keep them as friends wasn’t cause I was tossing them a bone. It was because I still cared for them as a regular/normal friend. I can’t help who I love and don’t but I still wanted them in my life because I still care for them and like them as a friend.

I know guys hate hearing this but if a woman is remotely physically attractive she has probably had a fair amount of guys hit on her in her life. And most of them walk away after they do that. But when the friend or best friend hits on you, as a woman, you don’t expect him to walk away. Guys at bars leave when you turn them down, not your friend. Your friend is supposed to be there through thick and thin. So, it is heartbreaking when you lose a friend over this. 

Women want men to be friends not just lovers. Sometimes it turns into lovers, sometimes not. So sometimes that gets all messed up and most of them really aren’t trying to hurt the guy. We are just trying to keep something that is dear to us.”

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