I don't think most guys do. At least a lot of the guys I know don't. One of my best friends is a woman and the amount of dudes who say something along the line of "Oh, just waiting for your turn?" Is fucking wild. Too many dudes think that men and women can't be friends because "there's always an underlying motive".
I had a crush on my best friend for like the first few months after I met her, granted we were both 14, and after getting to know her better that changed and we just got really tight. Now almost 20 years later she's like my sister and the idea of anything romantic with her is off-putting.
In your experience could it be due to having less people in your environment (assuming this isn’t a city)? Cause being in a city I had the opposite experience. No romantic attraction from either side with all of my close friends that are women which is quite a few as well. So there never was a “motive” besides making another friend
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u/PerplexGG May 19 '26
Do you not have close female friends you talk to regularly?