The issue of friendship between men and women worries many minds. There are two diametrically opposed opinions on this matter. Can people of different genders be friends without sexual overtones?
How is love different from friendship?
First you need to understand the terminology. What is friendship? This word is customary to denote the mutual affection of two people. What is love? This concept includes intense attachment from emotional disposition to passion. Both love and friendship are based on attachment. The difference is in the emotional context. This is where the dog is buried. Indeed, very often love is a natural development of friendship, attachment in this case does not disappear anywhere, just an additional emotional coloring appears.
There are, of course, exceptions. For example, if you have been friends with a person since childhood, it is quite possible that over the years of communication, your friendship does not transform into something new simply by force of habit. But usually what starts out as friendship changes over time. A man and a woman communicate in a friendly way, share the most intimate (because they are friends), spend a lot of time together … At some point, it turns out that one (or one) of them has stronger feelings.
This is a normal process, any person wants love. The desire to be loved is one of the basic ones for the survival of the human species. Ideally, the change in emotion happens at the same time. In such cases, both people look at each other and understand that they want more than friendship. But ideal situations are not common.
The emergence of love
The most popular development of such a friendship is that only one person from a couple develops in love. There are two scenarios for the further development of the situation. The first is that the lover is afraid to spoil the existing relationship, to lose the opportunity to communicate, so he does not show his feelings in any way. The second - the lover talks about his feelings. Most often, this leads to an irreversible change in the relationship. And not always positive. After all, it is almost impossible to fall in love in response "of your own accord". And it becomes very difficult to communicate with a person in the same light, friendly manner after recognition.
All this does not mean that there can be no friendship at all between a man and a woman. It's just worth preparing for the fact that it may become a temporary phenomenon. Honesty in such a situation is the best policy. If suddenly one of the couple has love experiences, it is better to say about it right away. So you can pause communication in time. Because it is much easier to complete something when it is just beginning, so you can get by with a little blood and not completely broken heart.
