What do you guys think about a woman having guy friends and a man having female friends while in a relationship?

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So, long story short, there's this woman I've had for about two months. We used to talk and text pretty much every day, from early morning till bedtime. A few weeks ago, y'know, she started going on dates with this guy, and recently, about a week ago, it got serious. Congrats to her, but since then, she claimed we couldn't be friends anymore; last Wednesday night, she said it'd be the last time we'd talk, but I guess she was bluffing since we've been talking, very brief, tho, since that night.

That low-key hurt because she's a nice woman, and we both vibe well, y'know, talking about the real deep introspective type of shyt, but despite that still, she'll answer my calls (sounding like an a$$hole tryna rush me off the phone, they don't live together so how would he know she's talking to other guy friends) and respond to my texts despite her boyfriend telling her she can't talk to no other guys, even as friends. I feel he's controlling her, but she's all lovestruck by this dude, and when I tried to give her a hint, she caught a little attitude.

She said she made the same rules for him, not having any female friends, but I'm a man, and bruhs, we all know there are always a few women we stay close to whether we're in a relationship or not because that's just what we do, 9/10 we're not shutting out every woman we know (platonically) for one woman unless we're married but not just in the beginning of dating, that's a bit extreme.

I've been in numerous relationships, and I've never had a woman tell me to ditch all my female friends, and I've never made a requirement for a woman to throw away all her guy friends just for me. So I'm kinda new to this dynamic because most of my relationships in the past and currently have always been where we'd have the freedom to have friends, male or female. I know how important having friends is, so I'd never make someone choose me over them; I believe there's room for both.

This was the post I made on Facebook that Wednesday night in response to her telling me we couldn't be friends anymore cause of her boyfriend, that's how I feel about the topic.

What do you guys think :yeshrug:?

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Here's the thing:

men AND women tend to look for the same things in friendships that we do in relationship/sexual partners. By definition this makes it difficult. Men tend to look for attractive women to be friends with, and women tend to look for men who make more money than them.

That's not 100% rules. but most of us can say there's a lot of truth there, any women I am friends with, I am down to sleep with. Because I am attracted to them. Any woman who is friends with me, has considered me a replacement. Doesn't mean it's not possible, because it is, but that is the reason it is difficult. I have a girl friend who will still go have dinner with me, she has a boyfriend.


Studies have also shown that heterosexual men and women look for different qualities in their opposite-sex friends, which suggest that they are perhaps treating those friends as potential backup mates as a byproduct of evolutionary mating strategies “being activated in a novel social context,” Szymkow said. It’s called mating activation hypothesis in the academic literature.

The results? After “personality,” men prioritized physical attractiveness in their opposite-sex friends, while women prioritized economic resources and physical prowess.

Szymkow was the lead author of a study that looked at the opposite-sex friendships of 146 heterosexual people in committed relationships. The results echoed earlier findings that men place higher value on the attractiveness of their female friends and women place higher value on perceived financial resources of their male friends. But interestingly (or maybe not surprisingly), “current partner’s attractiveness, provided support, and relationship satisfaction moderate” attraction to opposite-sex friends for women, but not for men.
 

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Ive never cared if a woman had guy friends. If a person is going to lie/cheat on you then that's a testament of their character. What I'm not going to do is enter a relationship to become a detective or someone that's controlling because we are adults.

*im just responding to the thread title not the paragraphs that lost my attention after a while lol
 
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So, long story short, there's this woman I've had for about two months. We used to talk and text pretty much every day, from early morning till bedtime. A few weeks ago, y'know, she started going on dates with this guy, and recently, about a week ago, it got serious. Congrats to her, but since then...

stopped right there.

nah bro this entire mindstate is guaranteed, repeated Ls. unfukk yourself immediately.

"this woman i've had" you ain't got shyt :dead: the fukk
 

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You are talking and texting with a woman from early morning to bedtime and it's not your girlfriend? Why?!
Well, initially she hit me up in September, with the intention of us hooking up but around the beginning of October we had a falling out because y'know I'm more of the exclusive type when it comes to dating, where she was open to going on dates with other dudes until she found the right one.

Also, we had some arguments because of that but also she felt I wasn't returning the energy when she wanted to see me. I kept delaying due to work but also other reasons; I just wanted to take my time.

So after that, we stopped talking for nearly two weeks. We blocked each other on Facebook at the time, but then around the 3rd week of October, she called me, and we rekindled, but only as friends due to what happened before, and I was cool with that.
 

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Its fine, but at the same time, A woman (or man) that has respect for their partner, will also be aware of optics and how that can affect the social standing of their partner,

Even an honest innocent friendship with the opposite sex, can potentially have a negative impact on a romantic relationship.
Up to you to determine which relationship takes precedence for you, because you may need to sacrifice one to secure the other.
I wouldn't subject my lady to whispers and gossip everytime she steps out the house, just because i want to hang out with my friends. Seems kinda childish imo. Unless we not all that seriously committed to each other.
 
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