Do's and Don'ts of Cultivating and Maintaining a Platonic
Friendship with a Woman You Would Otherwise Want To Have a Relationship With and Quite Possibly Marry.
- DO play and replay scenarios in your mind where you come out and declare your true feelings to her, whereupon you proceed directly to frenzied yet sensitive, passionate, and completely fulfilling love-making.
- DO NOT actually attempt this.
- DO rehearse elaborate and impassioned declarations of your love
- DO NOT ever let anyone hear you doing this.
- DO NOT ever actually give her the speech. (Instead, drop little, enigmatic, self-deprecating hints to her, and then agonize over why she does not pick up on them.)
- DO listen to all her problems with men:
No matter how many times you have heard her make these same mistakes
(with other men), DO NOT get so entranced by her soft,
full lips that you lean forward and kiss her. (Fantasize about it
instead.)
- DO feel the knife twisting and your insides tearing
up as you listen to this
- DO develop a gnawing enviousness that grows into an
insane jealousy
- DO commiserate with your close guy friends. See
who can come up with the most heinously painful story about "The Treatment." in unison.
- DO NOT confide in any of your female friends,
because:
- They won't understand.
- They've done it themselves. In fact, they enjoy doing it.
- They'll think you are talking about them.
- They are obligated to pass on their knowledge to the Psychological Warfare Division of the Sisterhood to Destroy All Men.
- DO get drunk and maudlin about her
- DO NOT get drunk and confront her
- If you do reveal your true feelings to her while drunk or in an
otherwise abnormal or altered state of mind (incl. unwarranted
happiness, ridiculously deep depression, brain fever, etc.),
DO deny and disavow all statements the next day.
- DO say how it would be such a big mistake if you
were to get together with her.
- DO joke about it afterwards.
- DO NOT cry, break down, and admit that you have been
carrying a torch for her for ___ weeks/months/years/aeons.
- DO NOT consciously avoid her for the next two weeks
(avoid her unconsciously).
- DO curse yourself for being a miserable, spineless, pathetic,
emotionally-stunted fool.
- DO promise that you will change, that things will be
different.
- DO NOT actually change.
- DO agonize about whether to sign letters to her "love" or "your friend"
- DO NOT pretend you are kissing her when you lick the
envelope.
- DO vacillate between fearing that she will discover
how you feel about her and hoping that she does.
- DO seek out opportunities to hug, air/cheek kiss,
and give/receive back rubs
- DO NOT let things get out of hand (if this should
happen, apologize profusely and disavow everything)
- DO become trapped in a shallow, meaningless, lifeless relationship.
- DO NOT actually seek out a secure, quality, lasting relationship, as this would interfere with your fantasizing about her
- DO complain bitterly about this awful relationship
to all your friends and to her.
- DO create a web page that is vague
enough to be relevant to the masses, yet specific
enough so that the one, special platonic friend you've been
carrying a torch for reads
it, comes to her senses, and fulfills Fantasy #4
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women on why they destroy men.
- It can't be her fault. It must be my
fault.
- To be or not to be...that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in
the mind to start over or just admit ignorance....
- You are a sexist, misogynist pig. I'm checking your home page to see if you rate "babes,"
too.