#FriendlyConnections: Men, have you thought about how your female friends could help you meet someone special? 🤔 Let’s chat!
Hey there! So, I’ve been wondering if there might be a connection between having female friends and meeting potential partners. I’m not here to judge or anything, just genuinely curious!
For me, I’ve actually met some amazing women through my female friends. After a long-term relationship ended, they were the ones who introduced me to new people and helped me get back out there. It was honestly a game-changer!
But hey, I’m not saying you should be buddy-buddy with women just to meet other women. Female friends bring so much more to the table than just potential dates. Plus, building a genuine connection with a woman is key for her to vouch for you with someone else. Trust me on that one!
So, what’s your take on this? Do you have female friends who’ve helped you in the dating department? Share your thoughts with us! 💬 #DatingAdvice #FriendZone #RelationshipGoals
Nope. All my friends are men
I have a few friends who are women and they hesitate to introduce me to women they know because the single ones are usually single for very good reasons.
Friends??
Whatarethose??
Most of my friends are women.
In my experience, knowing women is no help, especially in my generation.
At 25, I can say most women/femmes I know and have known are either too isolated (no expanded friend group to introduce you to), too gay (everyone they know is a lesbian/or a man-averse bisexual), or just aren’t capable of being friends with a man they don’t see on some level as sexually unviable, they see as socially neutered, nonthreatening, desexualized*.
******Edit: Just wanted to finish the thought.*** *And when women see you like that, they will find your interest in women to be disgusting, perverted. They will be hostile to the idea of you approaching anyone they know, and they definitely won’t root for you outside of the friend group. Maybe they’ve got sexual hangups, maybe that’s just how they’re wired, maybe that’s how they think of men that aren’t attractive to them. I don’t know, but all I know is that no one deserves to be around people that trivialize them like that.**
And of course, some know people that are already in relationships.
It’s probably as much about my social environment and the kinds of people I talk to as it is about anything inherent to me, but I’ve found that the only thing that’s an option are cold approaches while out with friends or cold approaches out by myself.
Cause they don’t know anyone and wouldn’t be a wingman if they did.
Most people I know are in categories 1,2, and 4. Being around 3 is bad for your self-esteem and will eat away at you and I don’t associate with them anymore.
The times I did, they didn’t have any friends that were girls, and would usually get catty if another girl friend was invited along
Almost all my women friends are part of married couples. Their one attempt at introducing me to someone didn’t work out… she was obese and not that interested in dating. I meet female acquaintances out singing quite regularly, but there hasn’t been anyone interested in me or introduced to me by them.
Yea i do.
Ive had many women be my friends over the years, and get along with them very well, but honestly a lot of them havent “lasted” like my friendships with guys. I think me and my boys are inseparably close and will be til death but my friendships with women, while fulfilling have been more temporary.
Basically at this point my “best friends” are all men, my boys who ive stuck with from the start. A couple of them ive got baby pics of us together lol. Usually with women they either get a serious boyfriend and no longer appreciate the attention, or their boyfriend discourages the friendship, or they were friends with me because they were dating one of my friends, and then they broke up, or they moved far away and we lost contact etc.
Right now, at 24yrs old, my friends are:
– 4 male best friends, all known for a long time
– 6 women friends who im much less close with because i know them from work. (I work in fashion so it’s dominated by women, all my work friends are therefore women.)
– 5 or 6 others of mixed gender who im not particularly close with, things like a friend of one of my best friends, or a friend from school who lives far away but hangs out whenever they visit. basically people who im not going out of my way to interact with all the time, but i get along with them well and see them now and again.
So all the women im friends with, its kind of – middle ground where in a way they have to get on with me because we work together, but at the same time i do think they genuinely like me and we are weirdly close (in some cases)- you end up talking about all sorts of deep stuff on long shifts. Theyre all aware im single but its always a “none of my girls are single” or “i dont know anyone whose your type” kinda thing so ive never been set up with a friend of a girl friend of mine.
I used to until most of them got boyfriends and inevitably ghosted me. I stopped trying to befriend women due to this happening more often than not
I have no friends that’s why i’m not meeting women 🫡
Friends probably one, but I know several women from classes and workplaces throughout different moments of my life. The difference that it made was absolutely zero.
About a 50/50 split between close friends that are men and women.
Still have to work like a dog to meet anyone to date..
I have about 6 really close women friends, and dozens that I have the numbers of and have hung out with, one on one with many of them. Every single one of these women can easily have any relationship they want, and bounce around from one to the next effortlessly. Absolutely zero of them remain single for more than a few weeks.
I have friends who are women, you might say I have too much though, because they all just see me as that and nothing more, albeit I’ve never made a move either because cultural differences or their current dating situation. They love me too, just not in the way I desire.
That worked once for me, but that was because my woman friend was also a housemate, and she introduced me to a friend of hers that I hit it off with. Long time ago. Now it seems like social circles don’t mix anymore, it’s always the same people. It’s probably up to me to have a gathering and mix the tribes and see what happens.
26m, I feel like MOST of my friends are women. I have my male friends , but they’re mostly people I just go to the gym and concerts with whereas my women friends and I spend time together and just hang. I met most of these people at my jobs, going to concerts, or through roommates.
This is probably as a result of not treating every woman like a prospect. There are those who I find attractive, but our relationship never steered in that direction and I’m not the type of person to insert that dynamic into a relationship.
Give yourself the space to be *around* women. I hear CONSTANTLY that these women feel like they can’t be around single guys because they always end up trying to fuck or abandoning the friendship because they don’t end up in a relationship with them.
I do
Have a number of female acquaintances, but none really at the friend level where we make plans to see each other and hang out. But I only have a handful of male friends, to compare
no. i had a few, but i lost contact with them after they got engaged/married/coupled (they distanced themselves until contact was eventually lost)
i’m in grad school.. the few girls there would limit contact with single men like myself (unless necessary) because they are already in relationships..
outside school, i see no chance, as everywhere i go i see nothing but tight groups and couples my age
Hardly can say I have friends that are men
Many and they tend to be the ones I fall for. You can guess how that has worked out…
Most of my friends are women. I have no problem meeting women, I just can’t excite a woman enough to want to fuck me
Most of my friends that I hang out with are women.
I’m a great wingman for them. They are terrible wingwomen.
One girl even told me “I don’t believe you’re only friends with her, she’s gorgeous!”
Yeah, she is, and she’s a great friend, but she’s a fucking nutcase gf. I’ve had years to make a move and her back, it hasn’t happened, we both don’t want it.
Im 26, I have a good amount of girl friends but they are all in relationships or girls who I would not be compatible with in a relationship.
My female friends won’t let me date them because they know how they’re. And after hearing the stories I’m glad I got the warning
got it
make friends with women you don’t find attractive
then have them introduce you to their attractive friends 🙂
I’m on the opposite end. Most my girl friends have introduced me to their friends or I’ve been able to secure some sort of connection just by being around them. I 100% think theres correlation between being able to relate to women on a friendship level and being able to relate to them on a romantic level. A similar observation that I have made has been with my guy friends who grew up with sisters.
First I should tell you that my days of trying to have a relationship are over. I’m 57, I have two jobs and take care of my 82 year old mom who has dementia and just had a stroke and a heart attack earlier this year.
I’m a collection of responsibilities with a mailing address.
I have several female friends, none of whom are the least bit interested in setting me up with anyone, and never have. Just the way things are.
Yes absolutely. I used to be a rooster to many hot hens for 3-5 years. It was draining and I switched out to being a dude with bros, too much estrogen.
I can tell you that your chances of being with one are completely based on first contact. You need to be hot and have the stuff. It’s very simple, you just know if they are into you. If it keeps going on for weeks and she is the aggressive one, it’s as simple as that.
That’s why when you don’t feel that, it’s true. I try to stress, leave the country. Visit other places. Get the picture. In America you are less valuable. Significantly. The amount of work you have to do to get lackluster should motivate you to gtfo and get real relationship experience. Over here it’s fake. You are NOT ugly. You are NOT bad. You were good! You are a good man. Let them rot.
I’m being very courteous by not sharing what I know in those 3-5 years. Why did I break it off and decide to have all guy friends? Why!
I’m trying to help you. Save your money. Learn a language. Save your self . Please.