Is there a friendship between a man and a woman?”- the eternal question that was asked for eternity by famous fiction authors, artists, sociologists, psychologists and many other representatives of scientific and non-scientific professions.

Perhaps today, the answer remains the most controversial human relationships in psychology. On the one hand – proven examples of life stories – a genuine experience, claiming that friendship is the product of purely human, asexual, emotional expressions. On the other – due to the fact of biology, scientifically proven by the presence of natural attraction.

So, it is safe to say only one thing: the friendship between a man and a woman is most likely impossible – and it is a rule, and, as we know, the most significant confirmation of the rule is the presence of an exception of this rule.

Oscar Wilde stated: “Friendship between man and woman is impossible. Passion, hostility, adoration, love – but not friendship.” But what if these principles have lost their relevance with the rapid passage of time?

In an age of incredible scale of the impact of businesses on all segments of modern society, the age of equal rights between men and women, is the spirit of partnership could bring to the relationship between two people of the opposite sex fraction friendly hint? Obviously, all these arguments may seem exhaustive.

But only at first glance a partnership relationship may be perceived as friendly. In fact, when we look at modern man and modern woman, raised in the framework of the official-business environment, there are many changes. In that place where to replace the beneficial interaction come manifestations of deeper feelings, describing the friendship and emotional disposition in an informal setting – a man and a woman automatically loses an equal sign, and thus become the objects of their natural instincts.

The probability of having sexual sympathies from one of the participants in this kind of partnership is very high. And numerous social experiments repeatedly prove this theory, saying that at least one of the two parties of friendly relations, in tandem, men and women, allows for the possibility of developing an exemplary something more, while providing a solid foundation for the continuation of dialogue. Under the conditions of unjustified expectations for “something more”, the continuation of such a friendship becomes extremely fragile.

Summing up, I want to recall that, irrespective of the existing diversity of views for each single person separately-question the possibility or impossibility of the existence of friendship between man and woman is achieved purely internally, based on the specific situation. So do not get hung up on stereotypes and subjected to social patterns. Most likely, you need to follow personal feelings and always rely on their sincerity.