I'm very affectionate with my guy friends, hugs, playing around etc., and we're still friends. A few of them even have girlfriends who don't mind it when we sneak off to talk. I think it all depends on the guy.
I have had trouble with other guy friends but i've maintained many of my guy relationships (I mainly have male friends).

I pick on my guy friends. But then I hug 'em, laugh with them, laugh at them, offer to kill girls for them, and if they need an ear or a shoulder, they know I've got two of both. I've never said "I love you" to any of them. Probably never will. But I think they know that I do, just like I know that they love me, too.

We get along. And we'll never be anything but friends. Unless one of them marries my sister...

It only works if I'm not attracted to them. What draws me in to having guy friends is their sense of humor- not their looks.

I had a best guy friend for years... now we date, hahaha. i guess i didn't play by the rules.

I'm just gonna post here and explain things before I get negative feedbacks  :D (copy pasted from a comment given to me from another site)

"this should be titled "5 ways of finding and keeping a guy friend assuming every guy is socially retarded and in love with you." you could try not to imply that the relationship dynamics of girls and boys are this weird and uncomfortable and difficult to navigate. really the way to find and keep a guy friend is to be a good friend back to him. be nice and respectful and have fun together and support each other. none of this condescending cosmo-style bullshit."

Let's try it this way. One sentence at a time.

"you could try not to imply that the relationship dynamics of girls and boys are this weird and uncomfortable and difficult to navigate."

-I never said nor implied that the relationship dynamics of girls and boys are this weird and uncomfortable and difficult to navigate cause its actually fun and interesting. Sometimes (well based on my experience) things just get out of hand (again my own experience). I wrote this down when someone keep on ranting about getting hit by his guy friends when she was single.

"really the way to find and keep a guy friend is to be a good friend back to him. be nice and respectful and have fun together and support each other."

-Like I said on my post "Guys, do you have anything to add to this list?" and so I would thank you for adding another one on the list of help

"none of this condescending cosmo-style bullshit."

-Like I said on my post "There's probably more but I hope that's a start to keep you going." I'm still learning as things goes with friendship so I'm not condescending on the contrary I am asking for more advise. Also cosmo-style bullshit? gotta give a LOL cause that never occurred to me. I just wrote this down, check if it was readable, based it on what I know, make sure I didn't hurt anyone, and give credit where it is due.

Lastly.

There's no bullshit on what I said, I tell it as I experience it, but also humbled myself that there is still much to learn.  I mean if you know more and write better, then be my guest to write them all down and I'll just take notes and move on to the next day

@Eternal_Nocturne@xanga - Do you think many other people also feel that way about "hot chicks"? Is that why nobody ever approaches me because they think I'm crazy or just hard to deal with? I'm trying to finally figure out what my problem is because I've yet to figure it out and I probably should or I'll be single forever (and I don't want to be).

I sort of agree with the not being able to be best friends thing. There are moments that my two best guy friends and I have that are a little awkward. But it doesn't amount to anything because there's three of us. I feel like if the two of them continue fighting like they are right now and I spend more time with each of them individually I might have a problem on my hands...

I'm dating my best friend lol

@vicdaily@xanga - No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no, that's MY theorem on "hot chicks" and it's the reason why I will never date them, but I have no problems with them as just friends. Besides, as I said, I'm really ugly inside and out, so it's not really such a bad tradeoff. My theorem is not true for all "hot chicks" either, but after 5 swings and misses at the ol' ballpark, I'm not willing to chance fate again!

With regards to you, however, there may a bit of a pedestal theory I do think some men have upon which a really pretty woman either does have a boyfriend already or that she's not going to talk to me. How do I put this...the problem is that you may be really awesome and good natured now from your physique to your soul, but men may feel awkward approaching you because it's like saying "Damn...how can I talk to her when I'm pretty much an asshole!" If this is not the case, then I'm not sure.

The problem with you in your second paragraph I'm guessing is that you're probably sending out mixed messages. Let me put it in a guy's perspective: if we're just friends, we're just friends, fine. But, you can't start doing anything in terms of voice or body language that is going to give us wrong ideas, only for you to be pissed at us for misreading the message. Most women don't realize they do this either, for I've had to correct my friends a few times at that. Don't make it seem so...well...optimistic in that there can be something further between her and me, so to speak. Spending time with them individually is going to cause problems too.

Another alternative problem is that your guys are not willing to stay in just friends territory. Trust me on this one, if a guy who REALLY likes you will commit to the friend zone, do you REALLY think that he's not going to wait until you and him can grow in intimacy? Either of them sound like they want to be more and they don't quite get the friend zone thing.

It's very possible to be "just friends", but I don't quite see how it's being done right here.

My closest friends have always been guys. Of course, I never considered myself any different from them. 

I have a best guy friend...we liked each other at the beginning, but I never knew that he liked me, and then he started liking someone else so now we're friends haha. Honestly, I can't ever see us dating >< he bitches all the time, he's really insecure, and he has a really big ego. He basically treats me like "one of the guys", so I could never see it happening. We fight like an old married couple though haha. Either way, I do believe that guys and girls can be friends by, as you suggested, setting boundaries and being clear about where your friendship stands.

Problem is that guys always seem to think that just because you're friends, or good friends, that they're in some kind of special position, you know what I mean? It doesn't matter that they know where I am in life, what I think about relationships, and how I am really against getting into one at this point right now. It doesn't matter that I've told them about what happened to previous guy friends who thought they had a chance. It doesn't matter that I remind them that I don't want a boyfriend or any kind of relationship. It doesn't help. They don't get the point. They like me anyway, act stupid about it, then mess things up. Even if they know they have no right to, they start acting like they ARE my boyfriend and I just have no patience for that kind of stupidity. It's like: "I warned you."

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