How to Be Just Friends

• 1). Consider how you feel toward the person with whom you want to be friends. It will be extremely difficult to maintain a friendship if you have any sort of sexual attraction to the person. Before you let the person know that you want to just be friends or vice versa, decide whether you could do friendly activities alone with the person without expecting the friendship to advance into a sexual relationship. Let the friend know that you should spend time apart for a while if you have sexual feelings toward him or her.
  
  
• 2). Avoid romantic activities such as going to romantic comedy films, having a picnic or going to an expensive restaurant. This also includes not buying anything when you and your friend go out. If you do lend money for something, make sure they pay you back just like any other friend would.
  
  
• 3). Be able to talk about relationships in a non-descript fashion, minus intimate details. Never talk about your relationships or sex life if you think you may have trouble maintaining a friendship or are on the verge of becoming more than friends.
  
  
• 4). Go to social events or never go places with the person alone until you know for sure no sexual tension exosts. Try to go out with friends that don't know each other to dinner or have a cookout. Talk and socialize with the person the same way you do with the rest of the people in the group.
  
  
• 5). Be open with your friend and practice having conversations and doing activities you would do with any of your other friends. For example, you must have activities in common, such as going to a baseball game or concert, about which you can talk casually about the baseball teams or band. If the other person starts flirting with you, you need to let the friend know he is making you uncomfortable.