10 Tips to having Opposite-Sex Friends without Ruining the Relationship with your Significant Other
By dating expert Sharon M. Rivkin, MA, MFT
Updated: Jun 10, 2009
Opposite-sex friendships are tricky and can be a direct threat to the relationship you have with your mate, but they don’t have to be. For most people, fear comes not from the friendship, but in keeping the friendship platonic, which can be difficult given that 90 percent of the time one of the individuals has experienced romantic feelings for his/her friend. Sometimes this is talked about and sometimes it isn’t, but the feelings are there.
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