That implies that friendship and sexual attraction are mutually incompatible. They’re not.

I’ve many friends whom I’m attracted to and would, were circumstances different, cheerfully sleep with. The fact that I’d be interested in having sex with them doesn’t negate my friendship with them, nor does it get in the way…

but it is a differing from normal human sexuality, which was evolved for the purposes of reproduction, i.e. male/female.

it is differing from what normal human sexuality should be.

I’ve witnessed first hand plenty of people being led on

But we’re so good at it!

“D”’s idea that she doesn’t want them in her life is an immature perspective, IMO. If she loves him and wants a long-term relationship, it seems to me that she will have to give his parents a chance too.

Some bridges need to be burned.

Other times people need to smell the gasoline and see the lit match before they realize the other person is serious.

Plus you don’t want to shit on your family and then find out she’s porking the mailman two years later.

You may consider marriage a religious ideology, but there are distinct secular, practical and legal benefits that come with marriage that you don’t recieve otherwise.

It's also worth noting that the disciples specifically told Paul to quit preaching...

First of all: http://consumer.healthday.com/encyclopedia/a…

Sorry, I didn’t realize Google was broken where you live.

Couple of points:

That’s because there is no One. There’s the .65-.90 that you round up to being The One because they’re just that awesome.

Wanting to have sex with someone (or actually having sex with them) and being friends with them isn’t mutually exclusive.

Toxic gender roles. One of the ways men are supposed to express their masculinity is in being “the provider”. If someone else is the provider, they’re less manly by definition.

Alternately, if he realizes that the two of them aren’t necessarily right for one another in the long term, should he be staying with her until the end of time because he doesn’t want her to think he was using her?

There’s being used and then there’s recognizing that not every love story is an epic poem. Some are a…

They’re in their mid 20s to 30s, so either they’re talking grad school or attended college later in life. It’s not unusual either way.

Loving someone doesn’t turn off your junk or your heart. You can - and many people do - be in love with multiple people without diminishing the love you have for others. And a monogamous commitment just means that you choose not to sleep with other people; it doesn’t say a damn thing about not wanting to.

Wanting to…

That is unbelievably sad.