In my opinion being a woman and all in the past if i didnt want more with a guy and i knew he did you would play the friend card because most men would respect it and not push you further. I think women do it for this reason or to test you to see how far your feelings run for them. I would always be honest and tell the girl how you truly feel and see what she says. Once your in the frienzone honesty is always best because you could end up wasting your time on a person who will never want more with you.

Good luck x

Welcome to the friendzone.

it certainly does exists and unfortunately once you get there, there is no going back. Happened to me a few times in the past with either ex's who say they still want to be friends or dates that didnt quite work out the way i wanted them to saying the same thing. I usually just cut them off completely as it's much easier if you have strong feelings for them and enables you to move on.

Well, I am/have fallen into that 'friendship' zone, and we are both working on getting back out of it. Sometimes life just gets in the way, one or both of you is too tired/busy/stressed/whatever and you kind of drift into that place where you simply forget to make any effort for 'the relationship' - so me personally, having decided that the 'friendship' zone is not satisfying enough to sustain, and he says he feels the same way, I am hoping that we can now build on the love/value/understanding that a true friendship is made of, and take it back to where it used to be with all the passion and romance that once was.

Right, armor back on, smile fixed back in place....onwards and upwards I say!!!

PS I was going to say summat along the lines of "younger people dont have that problem" but actually........my son is 15yrs old but doesn't have the time or inclination to pursue a young lass he has his eye on cuz all his time and mind is taken up - when not schooling, or skateboarding/playstationing with his mates - looking after his 91 yrs old blind granddad and 92 yrs old alzheimers nan - so this 'friendship' zone can happen to anybody, of any age or disposition.

That all sounds a bit tactical to me, in a greystone kind of way... if you meet someone and they dont fancy you, i think you just have to deal with it and move on. doing all that reverse psychology stuff when you meet a woman seems a bit underhand to me.