>>130165089I don't know. It's certainly more complicated than that.
I was friends with female colleague for over half a decade. She was already in a long term relationship, so I assumed I could relax around her and just be myself.
But then her man gets into a disagreement with her about their futures, and moves abroad for his career, leaving her behind. In spite of having been together for like a decade.
And that's when things got complicated. She tried to rebound on me, one of her closest friends, and closest man in her life after the fact.
And I've never really blamed her for that. Kind of seemed like a natural progression given the context of things. But I was never interested in her like that, and one of the reasons I could get close to her to begin with was specifically because she was already in a relationship, making the me think I was safe from any of that stuff.
Relationships between the sexes are awkward. And while you obviously can and should try to maintain good relations with the people around you, no matter whether they're man or woman, opposite-sex relationships are just fundamentally different. And pretending otherwise is unlikely to help.
