The friend zone

Platonic box you built by skipping intent

The friend zone

Conversation (Commons). The friend zone is a platonic résumé.
Field	Pickup
Also known as	friendzone, just friends
Origin	Folk / iceberg
Related	Don't be a friend; Sexualization; Attraction before comfort

The friend zone is the platonic box. In practice: you usually built it by skipping sexualization and becoming useful. Don't be a friend if you want her. Warmth plus intent. Confessing after a year of casework is a bad close.

Method

1. Intent in the first conversations.
2. Don't become the 2 a.m. clerk.
3. If you are already in, start over with someone else more often than you 'make a move' after 14 months of errands.

Failure mode

Blaming her for a box you furnished.

See also

• Don't be a friend
• Sexualization
• Don't fix her problems
• Direct game