Me and my best guy friend definitely fit this trope (though I do kind of have a crush on him, I'd rather just keep the good friendship we have right now). I've slept over at his house, we're always together, and it's getting to the point where we speak in unison. Thankfully nobody's suggested that we started dating. We talk about ''everything'' (religion, sex, etc.), and we've both learned a lot about the opposite sex through each other.

This troper and her best guy friend. We are very close but are not interested in each other, even though everyone else thinks we are and thinks we should be going out. Now he's got a girlfriend and I think they're very adorable together.

Wow, are you me? Same here. Except that my friend used to have a crush on me; thank goodness that's over...

I had a friend (she's in college now) who everyone thought he was going out with. Just because we really liked to talk together. This troper has two other friends who have a similar deal (I've met three people who don't even know them, and think they're dating...) He likes teasing his friends though, just for the fun of it.

This is going to be a long story *takes deep breath*. Okay so,this asexual, heteromantic tropess has two platonic life partners. (Switches to first person) One is purely a friend, although people keep trying to set us up. The other, well... obnoxious people used to try to set us up, and I realized that I am in love with him. I don't know if he is in love with me, since he denied it to other people, but we have had great fun together (not like THAT!) I want to tell him, but I don't want to make it awkward if he doesn't feel the same way. I'd rather keep the friendship if I can't have the romance. It's maddening not knowing if he loves me. He has had two girlfriends in the past, both of whom I am close to. I may have a fair chance at having a lasting romance because we are great friends, and the two girls before me barely knew him before deciding to go out. Another point is that he is going to the Marines after high school, and I have a dream of living in Canada or Britain after high school or college, so it won't work out without serious planning. My plan was to tell him at high school graduation, two years from now, so in case it DID get awkward, I wouldn't have to see him every day, but two years is a long time. I need some advice, please.

Me and my homeboy. We can talk about everything with a single notable exception... religion. He is a militant catholic and I'm and FlatEarthAtheist.

subverted to a sense with this troper. This troper (female) has a best friend who is male and whom people think she is dating. The subversion? He's a closet gay. Then isn't it just PlatonicLifePartners?

This is definitely TruthInTelevision. I (female) have had a (male) friend since the first day of high school. My mom tried to get us together. He's now engaged to someone else. I'm looking forward to the wedding.

This troper too. We've even been friends since childhood, and yes, we can talk about anything. Or rather, ''almost'' anything--he occasionally forgets that I do have my limits.

Same here. While we've known each other since kids, we've only really been close friends within recent years. Many people believe we're dating, when we're not. Really, if we were, I would be constantly wondering why I was dating such an idiot like him.

This troper has several such friends, though he's known them for considerably less time than is usual for the trope. One in particular too. The first one I met, the only one anyone has ever assumed there was something between us, and her father still doesn't really seem to like him. Really, he finds himself surprised that he has more female friends than male. They just all seem so much more ''fun''.

This male troper has been friends with one female snce first grade and has explained it as "my friend who's a girl but not a girlfriend" to anyone who askes if we were dating. For those that don't get that, she has the tendency to inform them that we can't date because we have different tastes in women, averting something.

This troper hangs around with two guys all the time. One of them is "definitely not her boyfriend" and the other is more like their {{sidekick}}.

This troper became very close friends within the last year with a guy she knew used to have a crush on her a few years ago, and now she's pretty much his sidekick (his nickname is Joker, she's recently decided she wants to be known as Harley Quinn.) We could not be more than the closest of friends in our opinion. Our potential significant others and bitchy people at our school who matter.... not so much.

This troper's best friend in higschool and a girl this troper had a crush on were pretty close and had known each other for years before he met them. They spent a lot of time together, both in school and outside, but she atleast wasn't attracted to him, and he didn't have a problem with this troper having a crush on her (even though he did seem somewhat attracted to her).

This troper has assured her male best friend that if anything, we are little more than HeterosexualLifePartners- which did nothing but baffle him endlessly. I text him more than his girlfriend does, am relentlessly jealous of his male roommate, feel free to talk about anything with him, and we do a whole lot of hugging... but no, won't go there. Differences in sexual preference. His is 'female!' and mine is 'no, thanks'.

This Troper and my (male) trombone section leader were like this in high school. At the end of eighth grade, I had a crush on him, but it was ''very'' short-lived. And the summer before our senior year, we ended up in the same summer gym class (we were trying to get credit so we didn't have to take it during the school year), we hung out together during class. I was TheLancer to his Hero. There were these two Ditzes who followed him around trying to flirt with him, and that whole time, they kept giving me weird glances because I never flirted with him and we were completely comfortable with each other. They just didn't get it, but that was fine (it was the first and ''only'' time someone has ever been jealous of me).

This troper only started hanging out with her best friend last year, and realized he was so interesting that everyone else in her school was just boring in comparison. Therefore, she spends almost all her time with him. Oh, God, if she had a nickel the number of people who have come up to her on separate occasions and asked, "Is he your boyfriend?", she could fill up a tank of gas at peak oil prices...

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This troper remembers being told about his mother being PlatonicLifePartners with a guy and his boyfriend. Her own mother was unaware until she asked this troper's mother about why she hadn't gotten together with either of them.

Damnit, people! Stop trying to set me up with my best friend! I don't think I could date anyone I have spent ten minutes standing out in the rain farting with.

This troper and her best friend, but we're more like PlatonicLifePartners (he's blatantly gay).

I had the same situation in high school, though I was so Straight Gay (and in the closet to everyone but her) that everyone at school thought we were secretly dating, so it ended up being a case of PlatonicLifePartners after all.

This troper's sister and her (male, obviously) friend have no feelings for each other, but everybody wants them to get together.

This troper fell horribly in love with the girl I now consider to be my best friend, even though she had already been going steady with her boyfriend for a year by that point. After several months of mental self-wrangling, I finally managed to get over it enough. Especially since having met and talked with her boyfriend and finding him to be a pretty awesome dude. The fact that she still ''wanted'' to be my friend even after all the episodes related to my incredibly strong feelings for her cemented things squarely in this trope's territory.

This troper and her best guy friend have sleepovers, go out to dinner, frequently use each other as furniture, and are strictly {{like brother and sister}}. Unfortunately,we have a following of freshman who are convinced that we either are dating or should be dating because we had to {{fake out make out}} in front of our entire school during the school musical in 8th grade.

Why are the majority of these written by women? Hmm. Anyway, I (male) have several completely platonic and very close relationships with women. This is mostly because I tend very easily to fit into their 'just friends' category, and whenever I actually decide that someone is worth being friends with, it's because they are the sort of person I could share everything with. This leads to interesting conversations which I am sure are real life subversions in which they have all had sex and talk about it endlessly, whereas I am the one left shrugging and going 'yeah whatever.' Also, two of them I have been friends with for over a decade now, and they are nearly as close, if not as close as, family.

This troper has a guy friend who's been her best friend since 1st grade (we're in high school now). We're always there for each other and people have asked us before if we were dating or they told us that we should date. We have no interest in dating each other, especially considering that we're both in our own separate relationships.

This troper's relationship with his friend couldn't get any ''more'' platonic if either person tried [ we call each other our not-boyfriend/not-girlfriend, just for laughs ]. So, because the chance of being taken seriously is pretty much zero, this troper himself makes jokes and quips about one of us being romantically into the other just to hear her freak out. It's a cruel thing sometimes, but she takes it all in stride. However, if anyone else tries to do the same, they better pray for mercy...

This troper has a lady friend with whom he can talk about anything, and we're generally amongst one other's first choices for cooperative stuff like gaming, writing, and other such activities. She's also in an extremely committed relationship with another of my best friends, and I'm borderline asexual, so the idea of us actually doing anything romantic or sexual with one another is pretty laughable. Hasn't stopped the boyfriend's parents from speculating, at least once, that she might have cheated on him with me.

It's just the Westermarck effect, I swear! Well, only in two cases. The other one...? Yeah, it turns out you can be just friends. With multiple women. It has been odd on one or another occasion--notably, when they show up looking very, very feminine, and it awakens certain primal urges. But primal urges do not a good friendship break.

This female troper is this with her closest male friend. She has lost count of the number of times someone has accused them of going out or has told them that they should go out. However, this troper just does not feel that way about her friend and vice versa.

This troper is her best friend's {{Failure Knight}}, and never felt that way around him. Yeah, she can go {{Yandere}} if one of his girlfriends does anything to him, but we are still friends. And that is all.

This troper has a guy friend that she is very similar to (both of us are very, very bookish and into the same things) which makes arguing with him way too much fun, so people tend to think we have a really bad case of BelligerentSexualTension. No, we're really very close friends who enjoy arguing with each other, but the idea of dating {{Squick}}s both of us out.

This (male) troper has a close female friend, whom he has known for literally years. Several times already, people have assumed that we were dating (Hilarity Ensued a few years back when she ''was'' dating a guy who had the same name as this troper; said guy is also one of my friends, leading to at least one case of confusion). Not that our behavior discourages the belief - we've cracked plenty of jokes (privately) about being a couple, and our IM/email records are a NotWhatItLooksLike waiting to happen.

This troper has a good many male friends (and is on fairly good terms with her brother's friends who are primarily male). This, coupled with the fact that she did not begin to date until her senior year of high school, apparently caused most of her female friends to assume she "wasn't interested in guys". Yeah...

Me and my bud (male) who I've known since.... kindergarten, I think. My best friend (female) has a crush on him, and I don't care. But, there are some people who think that we like each other.

This troper's female friend, which he's known since kindergarten, and always found attractive. But after so many years, you want to be just friends with that girl - and we still have a good relationship, even if (despite the fact we live close) we rarely see each other anymore. And the troper has a minor case with another friend, which did not last as long but was as close - enough for some people he knows to stupidly consider he was in love with her, even if she's ''far'' from attractive. And in college, his two favorite classmates are nerdy and not attractive (and considering one was smooching another girl in a party, she and the troper could be PlatonicLifePartners).

This troper (who is female and in high school), has a male friend who she talks to a lot, usually about a bunch of miscellaneous stuff, including cheesy jokes. As a result, people tend to think we have some form of UnresolvedSexualTension. It doesn't help that she's given him about 10 packs of cards that were left over from a school project from years before and has explicitly mentioned it felt weird when he isn't at school.

This male troper's female best friend was being pursued by a guy she wasn't interested in. Said guy would often not-so-subtly work his views on relationships into conversations. At one point, he claimed that men and women couldn't be just friends, and people in relationships shouldn't have close friends of the opposite gender other than their significant other. She replied that he may think that, but any guy she dates would just have to accept her friendship with this troper. This troper has never felt so loved.

This Troper has a relationship like that with her friend. We are both straight (well, I'm but find men attractive but not women, even if i dont want sex with them). Everyone thinks we are boyfriend and girlfriend, but we arent. We do spend a lot of time together, and often tell eachother that we love eachother, but in more of a friend way.

Are you me? Two of my closest friends are males, and I've lost count of the number of times I've patiently told people that neither one of them is my boyfriend. One of them is joining the Marines after high school through ROTC/OCS, so I might become his Girl back home, adding to the "Are you guys going out" factor. I hope he gets married after college, but then he'll have TWO Girls Back Home

This male troper and his female friend are in the same situation. People keep asking us if we "like" eachother. In one occaison, she was so surprised at the accusation she lunged at the acuser with a paintbrush. At which I feigned being hurt. Of course, since she's a grade ahead of me, everything simply thinks that I just have a crush on her. *Because the man always has to be the older one in the relationship!* It doesn't help that we often go and sneak off together...to do Pokemon/Pokewalker exchanges.

Most of this troper's friends in school are male, as is one VERY good friend outside of it. While nobody's ever asked me if I'm dating my friend outside of school, my schoolfriends and I get loads of remarks about how we're dating/they're gay.

This troper and her male best friend fit this trope down to a T - we've known each other all throughout secondary school, and despite rocky patches, we're now best of friends. We've also had more than our fair share of "Oh my God, you two should go out" remarks across the years. We both know, however, that this will never happen. (However, this is arguably subverted in that this troper does harbour romantic feelings for him, but that's by the by.)

This troper, and a girl he met on an internet forum. We can tell each other anything and such. The funny part is, if we'd met in real life, we probably never would have spoke. I'm the stoner while she's more of a cheerleader type.

This troper is this with a particularly close (male) friend of hers. We talk to each other about more or less everything. However people thinks he's going out with another of his (female) friend he's also this with, and people also tease this troper about being a couple with another guy she's, again, this with... PlatonicLifePartners?

I've got an online friend like this. He and I tell each other most everything (what's going on in life, our relationships with others, both romantic and platonic), but don't feel anything for each other... I think. For a while at first I admittedly thought I'd end up unlucky, but now I've worked that through and am perfectly content with what we've got, considering I need someone I can vent to outside of my "real life" friends.

This is basically my best friend and I. We're like brother and sister, we go to the same school and are seen together kinda often. The problem is most of my friends in the school, and I have MANY friends, believe we're dating at first glance. Despite the fact that we never do any "Boyfriend-Girlfriend" things together. As one of our smarter friends put it, "Society seems to believe that you can't be friends with someone of the opposite gender without wanting to have sex with them."

I of course agree that it is possible to be just friends with the opposite gender and not want to have sex with them, but then again i also believe its very very possible to be just friends with with the opposite gender and want to have sex with them

I (I'm a girl) have two seniors in college right now taking the same major as I am, both are of the same age. After looking at the both of them everywhere they go together almost all the time, I thought their relationship were more than friends but after asking one of my seniors (who's a female) if they are dating one night on a classmate's birthday party, she shrugged it off lightly and said that the both of them are just friends that really stick together most of the time. But then again, after doing some deep thinking, there's not much romantic chemistry between them, and it's for the better that they stay as close friends. (ItMakesSenseInContext) Find it hard to believe? Go meet them in person.

My guy best friend was my first love, making us PlatonicLifePartners. We know that we work out better as friends than we do going out. It still doesn't stop people from making fun of us and claiming that we have a thing for each other.

Would two gay guys who have been best friends for nearly half a decade but have never even considered getting together count as this? Given our statuses as LesiureSuitLarry and KavorkaMan respectively, it's nothing short of a miracle.

On school trips, the rule was that guys and girls ''could'' be in each others' hotel rooms, as long as there were at least four people present. I met my best friend (who is female) in grade nine. I was hanging out in her room with her roommates on a music trip in grade ten when I realized that we had this kind of relationship. She came out of the bathroom after a shower wearing just her underwear, saw that I was there, and didn't react at all. To the utter astonishment of everyone in the room, she walked right past her suitcase, sat next to me, and asked what we were watching. When one of the other girls pointed out that I was ''right there'' her response was "So?" And I realized...I didn't care that much either. We're just so used to each other's presence that there is nothing awkward about our friendship anymore (this was three years ago now). I know it's a cliche, but she actually may as well be my sister.

This Troper and her life-long best friend are this. We met in kindergarten, but then got separated in first grade when I switched to a private school. For 6 years we had no contact until I went back to public school and it was like we were never apart. 11 years have passed and our friendship is still as strong as ever. People often think we're a couple, with the amount of time we spend together and talk about each other, but the very thought of a romantic relationship feels incestuous and squicks us both out.

Anyone heard of Damned Lolita? One of her friends has become this/HLP/Like A Brother to me. We first spoke New Year's 2010. It's one year later now, and I can LITERALLY tell him anything. I love you, Aniki!

My best friend in the world, Kelly. We met at a RockBand competition at the beginning of 2009 and began dating in August. Our year-long relationship was completely non-sexual, but so close that her best friend was getting jealous of me. We even went on vacation together to New York City and Detroit. Even after our break-up, we remain as close as a two-person {{Nakama}} and could easily live together -- which we have for almost a month. How close are we? Whenever I consider going on a vacation, my first consideration is "Can Kelly go with us?" before "Can my current girlfriend go with us?"

This troper and her best friend are usually mistaken for dating. It doesn't help that he is a cute, submissive boy and I'm a short genki girl tsundere. Of course, as soon as someone brings it up we take it up to 11 with the old married couple routine. Oddly enough, this troper always ends up playing the husband.

This troper had one close friend throughout her entire school career, and on the outside we might have seemed like a couple at times - He's the outgoing, friends-with-everyone guy who wants to be a SoulBrotha or something, and I'm the ShrinkingViolet who literally says about five words a day. We're so not each other's type, though.

This troper has been best friends with this one girl for as long as we've known each other, her being a massive tomboy (As in, plays baseball, wears jackets and baggy cargo jeans) and me being a practical joker we were always sort of odd balls. We would pull pranks together and on each other, not to mention wrestle, the number of times we gave each other wedgies and noogies (Especially the wedgies though, I remember ripping a pair of her ducks underwear, got kicked in the nuts for it) is more than the number of stars in the sky. We once got asked if we were dating by my ''other'' best friend, who I'm actually HetrosexualLifePartners with (And odly, my Platonic life Partner thought me and the hetrosexual one were a gay couple), which is sorta funny, thought we could probably never get together due to the fact I'm quite a Womanizer (Being called a man-slut from her was a common event).

This troper just used this page to diagnose her friend's 'what-do-you-call-this-relationship' issue. BOO YAH.

This troper and his best friend (Female) are totally this. We met at the beginning of 9th grade year when she was the new student. At first, I didn't really know her as anyone else but the nice new girl who hung out with me at the football game even when everyone else left. I finally got to know her once we were in our Japanese language and Algebra classes. Part of the reason why I started becoming friends with her is because she's the only one who actually got me something for my birthday when she barely knew me.(a drawing, I still have it) We were usually left behind by the group during lunch cause she ate slow so they went outside to hang out so I waited for her each day and we talked during that time. Right now, It's the 4th quarter of the year and people think we're dating. Kind of funny how close you can get in nearly just one school year.

This tropette and her best male friend. We actually dated a loooong time ago, but decided that we were much better as friends. Now we're this! =D

I (a male) and my ex (and so far only) girlfriend. She´s the only girl I had the guts to confess my love to, and she reciprocated. However, due to a series of issues involving her family, long distance, and personality problems, we had to split as a couple and kinda lost contact for a few months. After that, we tried talking to each other again and found out that we still really like each other, even if she has a new boyfriend. Talking again reminded us how much we do care for each other, and, except for sex (I don´t like destroying couples and her new boyfriend is now my friend too) we´re pretty much best friends.

This female troper has not one, but ''two'' PlatonicLifePartners of the opposite sex whom she has known since the beginning of grade school - which at the moment is almost 13 years ago. Not until puberty was over and done with did they learn to have any kind of physical contact, which only ever amounted to greetings in the form of awkward hugs. They sometimes meet up to play when they aren't too busy with their respective educations/careers.

This female troper and her male friend are both bisexuals. Ignoring the times when people think we're gay, when we're finally recognized as bisexual many people assume we're a couple. This list includes but not limited to: my mom, teachers, my former friend, my current friends, random people on the street, Gay-Straight Alliance, and others. Then again I can see why considering he's constantly hugging me and cuddling with me and occasionally kisses me. Even for a while his boyfriend thought we were together.

This asexual, panromantic, female Troper has this with both her totally straight male friend and ridiculously cuddly, bisexual, female friend. The three of us are insanely close and often end up cuddling on someone's couch. People often ask if there's something going on. There isn't. The guy has a girlfriend, the girl has a boyfriend, and this Troper is happily single. That still doesn't stop people shipping us like crazy.

This tropette's best friend (let's call him...Grant, I think he might be a closet troper) and I are the best of friends, and nothing more. Our relationship with one another is flirtatious on a level that would make Garcia and Morgan blush. Heck, I call him my own personal Mel Bushman (anyone who gets that reference, good for you). He's always there for me, day or night. He showers me eith compliments, takes me out to dinner, and expects nothing in return, just because he can. Within our shared group of friends, he and I are nearly identical when it comes to favored movies, music, hobbies, and political leaning/religion; the last of which are completely opposite from the majority of our friends (as in, we have them and they don't). Both of our families know of "us" and urge us to get married, but neither of us would want our friendship any other way than it is right now. Besides, he has a girlfriend whom he loves and I am fabulously single. Grant, I love you, and I wouldn't trade you for the world.

(Groan) Played painfully straight with this troper and her male friend. She's known him for less than a year, and they're already good friends. They aren't as close as others on this page (for example, she won't let him get too close to her for "Does Not Like Being Touched" reasons), but still. The people at her school must be exceptionally stupid, because barely anyone can say anything to either of them without the subject ending with "Hey, you goes should date. You'd be cute together!" Quite frankly, the thought disgusts her. It's gone on to the point where she tells people he's her cousin in order to get them off her back.

This troper and her male best friend have been inseparable for nearly ten years, are each rarely seen without the other, and are usually mistaken for boyfriend/girlfriend or siblings. We routinely complete each other's sentences, fight like a married couple, and have a lexicon of inside jokes and references so complex that it's basically another language. Everyone, from our parents to our mutual friends to the teachers we had in high school, is certain that we're dating--but we find the very idea hilarious, and we're perfectly happy as we are.