The desire to find a true friend is natural for a person and does not depend on gender. Deep friendship gives a sense of security and shared sympathy, raises the bar of self-esteem.
Friendship between a man and a woman is treated differently. To some, it seems natural, but there are people who consider such a relationship an illusion. Friends of different sexes are the object of close scrutiny from others. And, indeed, can love be hidden behind the facade of all understanding and accepting friendship?
Friendship between man and woman
Strong friendship between people of different sexes, which does not strive to become something more, is a rather rare phenomenon. It is so inherent in nature that a man and a woman subconsciously perceive each other as sexual partners.
Purely friendly relations are formed between young men and women at schools and institutes, later at workplaces or against the background of a common hobby. Interests unite friends, and the gender difference helps to find out a different point of view on the same issue.
More often than not, heterosexual friends become a romantic couple, having successfully learned each other's strengths and weaknesses. Psychologists are sure that without personal sympathy, a man and a woman will not spend a lot of time together and support each other. Whether such sympathy becomes love depends on several reasons.
How friendship becomes love
Both strong feelings involve understanding and caring. The time friends spend together allows a man and a woman to become truly close people. The absence of sexual relations makes it possible to get to know a partner without experiencing the passion and bias that is inevitable during intimacy.
Two become loving people when they realize that the person they are friends with can attract them as a permanent couple for family life. Starting to appreciate each other as individuals, a man and a woman gradually begin to feel physical attraction.
Friendship can also become love when the former romantic relationship of both falls apart. At the same time, shared experiences unite, give an impetus to intimacy and even deeper feelings.
The chance that such a couple will live together for many years is very high. But only if there is a strong physical attraction to each other. Sometimes friendship hides unrequited love. Then the development of relations is simply inevitable, since one of the friends is interested in this and will do everything so that they move to another level.
If you have a friend of the opposite sex, it is worth considering what really connects you. The feeling that makes you spend hours together creates a surge of emotion and makes your blood flow faster. Maybe next to you is not only a friend, but the closest person in the world, your other half.
