In popular culture, the friend zone is a situation in which one of two friends wishes to enter into a romantic or s*xual relationship, while the other does not.
It is generally considered to be an undesirable or dreaded situation by the lovelorn person.
If a desired party does not return or respond affirmatively to the advances or affection of the desiring party, but continues to participate in the friendship in a platonic way, it is sometimes described as friend-zoning.
In a related sense of the term, friend zone can describe a "commitment mismatch", such as when two people are se*xually involved, but in which one person wants a committed relationship such as being a boyfriend or girlfriend, while the other does not.
According to some psychologists, the man in a cross-gender friendship is more likely to be attracted to his woman friend than she is to him, and he is more likely to overestimate her interest in a romantic or s*xual relationship.
The concept has been criticized by feminists as being unfair and misogynistic in imposing an obligation on women to offer s*x in return for kind actions by men.
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