Truly Platonic Friendships with the Opposite Sex

I’ve never had much of an opportunity for truly platonic male friendships. I’ve always been the girl with the jealous boyfriend who doesn’t like the idea of male friends (other than his own friends) and after awhile it just isn’t worth the fight… or I change their name to a girl’s name in my phone and voila! Then there are the ex-boyfriends that I don’t speak to for years who eventually turn into good friends after running into each other somewhere + a few beers. Or there’s the scenario where I’ve found myself having feelings for my male “friends” or vice versa and well, that has never worked out very well for me either… so I guess the jealous boyfriends were right to not want me having male friends. Whomp. Continue reading