Casually Explained: The Friend Zone

So fundamentally the friendzone is a bit of a relationship purgatory where although it's not exactly gender exclusive It's more often than not when a guy's sexual interest in a girl is met with only platonic friendship and realistically It's totally fine for a girl to like a guy's personality But not really be interested in a relationship The trouble usually comes from the fact that a lot of the time guys don't even realize they've been friend-zoned And this can happen for a lot of reasons But sometimes even though a girl might not be interested, a guy can

misinterpret the signal she's giving off and get too attached So if you're a girl, try to avoid being in the same room looking in our general direction, or winking both eyes at the same time and And sometimes if a guy really doesn't get it, you might have to clearly tell him that you're only friends or he's probably gonna end up with hurt feelings at one point or another. Like I was recently a Starbucks, and there's a really cute girl taking my order So we chatted for a second and she asked for my name to write

on the cup and when I got my drink I saw that my name had two hearts around it, and I was honestly one of the best feelings of my life And I was about to say something When I saw that she also drew a couple of hearts for a guy named Aaron right behind me Fucking slut. Now I'm sure some of you are wondering if you're in the friend zone right now and it usually progresses in stages So you can see which one you might fall into The first stage is denial which is believing you

aren't in the friend zone The second stage is anger which is coming to the realization that maybe you are The third stage is bargaining which is begging to take her on a date even though she's always showing you pictures of other guys The fourth stage is depression which is realizing she was showing you those pictures because she thought you were gay And finally the fifth stage is acceptance Just realizing that one of them is pretty cute And what do you have to lose? Now the most important question of all is can you get out of

the friendzone and interestingly not too long ago I was reading that a few psychologists at Penn State actually compiled a practical guide for men to get out of the Friendzone It looks like this. Of course the first thing is identifying you're actually in the friendzone then you execute the following steps Step one: be more attractive It's worth mentioning that while this guide is certainly effective, it can be kind of difficult to implement and at least takes a bit of time So one last piece of advice I was given a while ago was if you ever

in doubt, ask the girl out The logic being that she either says yes and that's great, or she says no and you have your answer But I realized that the same greatly underestimates my power for debilitating retrospection Which is why next time we're talking about how to get out of the friendzone into the friend with benefits zone where nothing goes wrong and no one gets too attached