It’s rather contradictory issue and opinions vary. Some people answer in the affirmative and they are proud of long-standing friendship with former classmates or fellows from childhood. Others categorically deny the fact of possible existing of friendship between man and woman. In this question, we won’t find the only “true” answer. All of us have experience and individual opinion. Part of us would believe that “he” and “she” can be just friend, and other would claim that it is nonsense – if two opposite sex people are friends, one of them most probably will be interested in more than just a platonic relationship.

There is a saying: Man who can be a woman's lover can't be her friend. Male-female friendships are very difficult. I don't claim that they are impossible, but they are rare. Such friendships are hard to keep unselfish and anything can happen... Chances of friendships between a man and a woman would be better if friendship followed love not the opposite way. When the passionate love ends, the partners would still have very close friendship to hang onto. It is impossible to forget shared experiences especially when two people know about themselves everything. As Aristotle said, friendship is one soul in two bodies.

But there are people who are claiming that people of opposite sexes can be just friends and nothing more. The basic point is that both male and female would have the same views on platonic relationship. If there‘s going to be a friendship between a man and a woman or not, depends only on them. The basics of friendship are interests and confidence, not gender. Mankind is thinking, that friendship with women is of a higher quality, they can express their own feelings not like with a man. Women like to have „pretended“ brothers, because with a male friend she can feel safe.

Nevertheless it doesn’t matter what gender you have, the point is to have such people whom you can confidently call your friends, that is priceless.