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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (2574)1/30/1997 1:15:00 PM
From: Janice Shell   of 108807
 
Alexa--

While it's true that probably on some level there's a sexual component in any male/female relationship, I disagree that friendship without ensuing complications is impossible. Needless to say, the male and female in question have to be mature, but really, it's not so hard.

I have a number of male friends with whom I've never been sexually involved, and others with whom I've been involved in the past. Most of them are married now, or at any rate in relationships. I don't find it a problem, they don't, their wives don't (far as I know, though here I'm speaking of friendships that are primarily between me and the man, not me and the couple).

Several of them have been friends for fifteen years and more; a couple are people I'd turn to if I were ever in a jam and needed help.

It can work: problems arise, in my view, only when one party wants a sexual involvement and the other doesn't. Sexual attraction is another question entirely: one can feel it--and frequently does; no surprise there--without acting on it.

Janice
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