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Old 06-03-2011, 11:58 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Saw this article and it hits on a touchy but sad point of many of our lives. AT least those of us who don't look like George Clooney or Heidi Klum (pick your own faves).

I like you as a friend | Love and Relationships | a Chron.com blog
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Old 06-04-2011, 12:17 AM
 
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yes, the dreaded friend zone.. it wasn't fun, but you keep going.



i definitely don't look like heidi klum, but that's okay with me because that means i'm different.


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Old 06-04-2011, 12:23 AM
 
Location: Tampa (by way of Omaha)
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I haven't been in the friend zone since high school.
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Old 06-04-2011, 12:41 AM
 
Location: SWUS
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****ing friend zone. It'd be easier for me to make an ice sculpture in Hell than get out of that trap.

At least women usually have the option of getting out of the friend zone. If you're a friendzoned dude it's much harder to dig yourself out of the pit.
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Old 06-04-2011, 12:47 AM
 
Location: Tampa (by way of Omaha)
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****ing friend zone. It'd be easier for me to make an ice sculpture in Hell than get out of that trap.

At least women usually have the option of getting out of the friend zone. If you're a friendzoned dude it's much harder to dig yourself out of the pit.
Solution is to stay out from the beginning.
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Old 06-04-2011, 12:52 AM
 
Location: SWUS
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Solution is to stay out from the beginning.
not all of us are able to just approach people and eventually make a relationship out of something random. We never win, we just get a little better each time.

Anyways.. it touches an OLD sore spot with me, but I've much improved since then. lol.
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Old 06-04-2011, 12:58 AM
 
Location: Tampa (by way of Omaha)
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not all of us are able to just approach people and eventually make a relationship out of something random. We never win, we just get a little better each time.

Anyways.. it touches an OLD sore spot with me, but I've much improved since then. lol.
No need to have a sore spot about it. All men, at some point, meet the friend zone. It's an unavoidable fact of life. The key is simply learning how to stay out of it.
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Old 06-04-2011, 01:02 AM
 
Location: SWUS
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No need to have a sore spot about it. All men, at some point, meet the friend zone. It's an unavoidable fact of life. The key is simply learning how to stay out of it.

and learn, I have.. sorta.
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Old 06-04-2011, 01:25 AM
 
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As devastating as it may seem ( Had a good friend from HS feel this way about me)
It is really one sided..as it usually is..I realize attraction occurs at many levels whether it be good friends with one friend having a secret agenda and then making the other friend feel "guilty"
Honestly, this happens and it's okay, one cannot help whom they are attracted and then feel let down when the other friend does not feel the same way, however if asked the other friend would say nothing but the best things about the other but one cannot feign an attraction for the other to make them "okay"

It does not always haveto do with the other party not being a super model or a uber hot male model for A&F...it is what it is..attraction is attraction and it does not mean that the other party involved is a barf bag it just means that a romantic relationship is not going to develop for various reasons..
Even simpler? I am not going to triviliaze feelings but I am going to state "Why cry over spilled milk" "Would you really want someone that does not think you are fabulous?"
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Old 06-04-2011, 01:41 AM
 
Location: SWUS
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As devastating as it may seem ( Had a good friend from HS feel this way about me)
It is really one sided..as it usually is..I realize attraction occurs at many levels whether it be good friends with one friend having a secret agenda and then making the other friend feel "guilty"
Honestly, this happens and it's okay, one cannot help whom they are attracted and then feel let down when the other friend does not feel the same way, however if asked the other friend would say nothing but the best things about the other but one cannot feign an attraction for the other to make them "okay"

It does not always haveto do with the other party not being a super model or a uber hot male model for A&F...it is what it is..attraction is attraction and it does not mean that the other party involved is a barf bag it just means that a romantic relationship is not going to develop for various reasons..
Even simpler? I am not going to triviliaze feelings but I am going to state "Why cry over spilled milk" "Would you really want someone that does not think you are fabulous?"
so far, this is the best explanation I've seen about the friend zone. Just out of curiosity, how badly did it hurt YOU when you were the subject of someone's (nonmutual) feelings? did you feel a bit guilty or that you might have accidentally led them on?
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