> yes they can, just not if you're both or one of you is single. > i am friends with all of my friends girlfriends. exactly this. as long as the man and woman have their own thing going, and especially if it's baked into the friendship from the beginning, it's absolutely possible. common, even. sometimes, if one of them is single (usually the dude), yeah he's potentially a vulture waiting for her relationship to drop dead, and he may be her backup, but that doesn't negate the above. i was manipulated by this lie in my 20s/early 30s and was "friends" with women who didn't think it was weird that they were banging everyone but me, and eventually i learned my lesson when she got a boyfriend and stopped hanging out, but i also got to do a graceful exit and never did it again.
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