Matters Of The Heart: How To Deal With A Platonic Love

Many people believe that platonic love between men and women is not possible, but believe it or not, it is!

Here are some tips on how to deal with platonic love.

Platonic love is often described as a deep friendship between two people of the opposite gender.

It’s often as strong as a romantic relationship without sleeping together – although many people around the two friends assume so.

Platonic love is a wonderful feeling.

Having someone of the opposite gender that you can openly talk to about anything and everything without the added pressure of a romantic relationship is great.

Of course, platonic friendships can be challenging in a way that your friendships with other girls are not, and are especially difficult if one person is feeling more love than the other.

However, if you know how to handle platonic love, you can have one of the most wonderful and rewarding relationships of your life.

Here are some tips for successfully dealing with platonic love:

Be Open And Honest With Each Other

There is a very fine line between platonic love and romantic love, so it would be very easy for one, or both, to cross that line.

Making sure you talk openly and honestly with each other on a regular basis will make it easier to deal with if it happens to both of you.

It’s also important to be open and honest about how strong your feelings are for the other person, even if you know your feelings are unrequited.

Be Open And Honest With Any Romantic Partner

If you have someone in your life that you have a strong platonic love for, then a romantic partner can end up feeling very jealous of that relationship.

Often, an emotional relationship can be just as intense – if not more intense – than one with a romantic partner.

This can be difficult for boyfriends, and sometimes, no matter how many times you and your platonic love explain that you’re not romantically interested in each other, romantic partners won’t believe you.

Of course, that doesn’t mean you have to end your friendship; it just means that you all need to have an adult conversation and find out what works best for all of you.

Set Ground Rules

Most platonic relationships work well and remain simply platonic.

However, sometimes one of the two develops some romantic feelings for the other.

If this happens, you need to have already established the ground rules for how you are going to handle it.

These rules can be things like: don’t mess with the other person or don’t talk about romantic partners.

Setting the ground rules will eliminate embarrassment and ensure both people know where they are.

Don’t Make The Other Person Feel Guilty For Not Loving You

Platonic love is often reciprocated and the two people can have a wonderful friendship.

Sometimes, though, one person has much stronger feelings than the other, and those feelings can border on romantic love.

If the two of you decide you can live with it, then that’s great.

Otherwise, however, it is important to handle this situation properly.

If you’re the one with the strongest feelings, it’s important not to make the other person feel guilty for not feeling the same way, and it’s important not to pressure them to be more than just friends with you.

Think about it, even if you could convince him to have a romantic relationship with you, it’s unlikely that he’ll suddenly fall in love with you the way you want, so it wouldn’t last.

Besides, you would probably ruin the friendship you had with him before.

Walk away if it’s too hard – As I said above, if the two of you are perfectly fine having a platonic friendship when one of you has much stronger feelings than the other, but it’s also fine to walk away if you can’t handle your feelings. feelings not being reciprocated.

In my opinion, this should be a last resort because it would be a shame to throw away what could otherwise be a lovely, platonic relationship with someone.

However, if you know it wouldn’t make you happy, you can walk away.

Just do it maturely and have a conversation with the other person first; don’t just suddenly cut off all contact and leave him wondering what he did wrong.

Have Other Friends

Obviously, you want to spend a lot of time with this person — and that’s okay — but make sure you spend time away from your platonic love with other friends.

It’s also good to have a mutual group of friends that the two of you hang out with, but make sure you both have separate groups of friends as well.

You need time away from each other, just like you do with a romantic partner.

Remember Boys And Girls Are Different

If you have a guy’s best friend, it can be very tempting to behave with him the same way you would a best friend.

Shape your platonic relationship around things you have in common and save girly chats for your friends.

Failure to do so can cause difficulties in your friendship.

Ignore people who don’t understand your platonic love

One of my biggest irritations is when people don’t accept that guys and girls can’t be friends without being in love.r.

You can be absolutely in love with a platonic guy.

The main reason most people think successful platonic relationships between men and women can’t be made is that throughout history men and women have lived such separate lives that the only real reason they stayed together was for romance. .

Now that we live in an egalitarian society, there is no need for such outdated ideas.

Enjoy Your Platonic Love

Having such a strong feeling and connection with another person, without the pressure of committing to a romance with them, is a wonderful thing.

You get someone who will always be by your side, who will always be with you, and who doesn’t need you to be anyone but yourself around them to impress them.

Another great thing about a male best friend is that he will always give you a different opinion than his female friends, which allows you to see things from a different perspective.

The most important thing to take away from this is that in order to effectively deal with platonic love and make this relationship work, you need to keep talking openly and honestly with each other.

Another thing to remember is that guys and girls can be best friends for years without ever falling in love – although many people think that’s not possible.

Does anyone have any more tips for successfully dealing with platonic love?