More than once, have most girls who have guy friends heard "Oh, do they like you?", "Are you a 'thing'?"
Let me just make this clear, to the people who don't believe guys and girls can just be friends, with no romantic feelings involved:
It. Is. Possible.
Is your mind blown yet? If it isn't, let me enlighten you. My first friend, and which we are still friends today, is a guy. We met when we were three, and it just took off from there. He is an only child, and even though I have a younger brother, he is like the twin brother I never had. Even in high school, we were always doing something together, whether it was making dinner because we were bored and drove to Hannaford, or practicing something, or watching him work on his truck. Never in our eighteen-year friendship have we EVER felt romantic towards each other, kissed each other, or any of the sorts. To this actual day, we still are just friends, even though I live almost two-thousand miles away, and we both have significant others. Other than just him, I have a few other guy friends, which one of them is one of my best friends, as well. We have never dated, kissed, even had romantic feelings. We just are the same person in a different body, basically.
It might be because I was always around guys growing up, or because my parents have friends of the opposite sex that they are close to, but nothing frustrates me more when people who say that guys and girls cannot be friends and that there is "always" some type of romantic feelings involved. The girl that I nanny, who is basically my sister at this point, is dealing with this right now. This guy and her have been friends since last year but have gotten close as of late. They are just friends, he trusts her with everything and vise-versa. But everyone in her grade thinks that they like each other, and constantly tease her about it. Of course, she gets frustrated about it, who wouldn't!? She too has grown up around boys, there are lots in her family, and she sees her cousins and I having guy friends. She would never want to date this guy, because it's just not like that. Mind you, these kids are 13, and have talked about this plenty of times. They talk daily. So, because he's a guy, they're automatically dating? I talk to a specific two of my girlfriends every day, and I'm not dating them?
I'm just sick of the stigmas, and the assumptions. Just because guys and girls hang out does not mean they are dating, or that one likes the other. It can mean it's completely platonic! It can mean they are JUST FRIENDS. What a crazy concept, huh? Most of my girlfriends have guy friends, it's completely normal.
So to the people who don't believe it can happen: get over it.
