Is friendship a possibility after a break up?
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Is friendship a possibility after a break up?
Host: Is friendship a possibility after a breakup?
Gloria MacDonald: After a breakup, lots of people say, Well, let's be friends. I think it is wonderful and wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone had amicable separations in their relationships no matter how long-term or short-term they were?
I think respecting and again and honoring and really having a sense of admiration for the other person is the way it should be and you might be able to remain friends for a short period of time, but I think when it comes to male-female relationships or any kind of relationship where there has been an intimacy, then it is hard to keep that relationship going on a strictly platonic level or friendship level, once another person or once one of the two people is ready to move on and start another relationship. So it in the long run, I think it is very difficult for a male and a female to have a truly platonic relationship.
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Host: Is friendship a possibility after a breakup?
Gloria MacDonald: After a breakup, lots of people say, Well, let's be friends. I think it is wonderful and wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone had amicable separations in their relationships no matter how long-term or short-term they were?
I think respecting and again and honoring and really having a sense of admiration for the other person is the way it should be and you might be able to remain friends for a short period of time, but I think when it comes to male-female relationships or any kind of relationship where there has been an intimacy, then it is hard to keep that relationship going on a strictly platonic level or friendship level, once another person or once one of the two people is ready to move on and start another relationship. So it in the long run, I think it is very difficult for a male and a female to have a truly platonic relationship. We can say we want to be friends and that's a wonderful intention and I think that's where we should start in terms of caring about continuing to care about the other human being, but to really continue to stay in touch and go out to dinner together and have lunches together and go to the movies together, I don't think that's something that for the large majority of us that we truly can do if we are also going to move on and find someone else in our lives.
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