Is a friendship between a man and a woman safe?

Answer 1

Safe? What exactly do you mean? Platonic relationships are certainly safer than, say, downhill skiing or hang-gliding. Are you concerned that a platonic relationship will evolve into a romantic or sexual one? In other words, are you asking whether there is the risk that what currently appears to be a regular, uncomplicatedfriendship will become a romantic or physical relationship? Certainly, there is always that possibility, but only generally speaking. There is no way for anyone who doesn't know the individuals in question to know whether they are just friends and won't become something more. So, I guess your question really is, "Is it appropriate for a married man/woman to have a friendship with a woman/man?" (I am assuming someone's married.) If that's what you're really asking, well, that's hard to answer. Opinions on that range from very conservative and old-fashioned -- a married man should never socialize with a woman who is not his wife -- to the very liberal and hip -- having a friend (or friends) of the opposite sex is totally okay, even when your spouse is not necessarily a friend. I can see how different opinions about that between spouses could be very contentious. Yes, it is. You can most of the same things with a guy friend that you can with a girlfriend, except put on makeup together and the like, or he may even like it. I would embrass any person man or woman as a friend, in this day and age we need as many as possible around us....Have fun and keep to the boundaries of friendship.