Platonic Relationships The Impossible Friend

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<Tab/>In modern times the terms "platonic love" and "platonic relationship" have come to mean a relationship between individuals of the opposite sex marked by the absence of romance or sex. (Entertainmates, 2002) Platonic relationships are possible but I believe that there is a critical period in which people can no longer be "just friends." Physiologically and psychologically humans are hard wired for reproduction and pair bonding, and many factors contribute to …

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…not a place for Platonic relationships. Platonic relationships are excellent and very rewarding if you have the strength and ability to sustain them. When the T and P factors are initiated it is almost impossible to stop the train wreck of misery to come. The past and present have shown us that humans are hard wired and genetically predisposed to pair bonding and that in the face of sex and love we are mindless drones.