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Reader Tess Responds:
I wholeheartedly disagree. My best friend of the past five
and a half years is male. The line has always been perfectly
clear in our case. In many ways, having a male best friend
is a great insight into how men think differently from women...he
gives me great advice about my love life. Competition to
look prettier or date more often or more seriously as there
sometimes is with my female friends. We talk about absolutely
everything. Other people (most notably, his parents) do
not quite understand how we have never crossed the line,
but it has simply never been an issue.
Beyond the fact that there is no attraction on the physical
level on either end, our ambitions and goals are too different
to support romance. In short, I firmly believe it is possible
to have platonic male friends; in fact, they can be valuable
sources of advice and great sounding boards. It is only
when people are unable to think about romantic relationships
practically as well as emotionally that things get muddled.
– Tess
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