The Truth About Platonic Friendships :: Platonic Love and Friendship

The researchers qualitative research consisted of speaking with Platonic friends of the opposite sex in casual hit-or-miss settings. The qualitative research was completely random using friends by chance that had no idea of the experiment. In doing so the researcher realizes that it is unethical, but figured it was the only way to find the real answers to his problem. During the dialogue the researcher at one point or another came to ask the same four forefronts to all of the subjects involved in the experiment. The four questions were as follows 1) we atomic sum up 18 strictly platonic friends, right? 2) Why are you my friend? 3) Have you ever wanted to be more than friends? 4) Is it a possibility for us to be more than friends? The so prognosticateed platonic friends names will all remain confidential in order to keep their business private. To this point there drive been ten random friends that have partaken in the qualitative study. In most of the studies the answers staye d consistent. To question number one all ten subjects agreed that Yes we are platonic friends. For question number two, all sorts of answers were recorded. Most stayed along the line of conventional reasons for being a friend. Some mentioned reasons such as cute, funny, easy to talk to and popular. tierce of the ten did however mention that they in fact didnt want to be friends when we first met. They stated they were looking for ore from the beginning it just didnt happen. Question number lead an astonishing seven out of ten platonic friends noted they at one point of another did want to be ore than friends. One individual went as far as to say that they quit being my friend due to the fact that she found out that I was involved with another girl. In question four again another seven out of ten friends agreed that something more could become of our friendship. Two mentioned that they had hoped that it would have already happened. Most that replied yes to question number four eithe r looked puzzled of asked if I was still involved with my girlfriend. In one example for the researcher was left stunned. For privacy sake we will call the subject by the fake name of molly. In the platonic informal interview with Molly the researchers exact problem was proven just the way predicted.