id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8421 Friend zone - Wikipedia .html text/html 1588 286 69 In popular culture, "friend zone" is a term used for the situation in which one person in a mutual friendship wishes to enter into a romantic or sexual relationship with the other person, while the other does not.[1] The person whose romantic advances were rejected is then said to have "entered" (or to have been "put in") the friend zone, with the sense that they are stuck there. 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 sexual relationship.[7][8] ^ "friend zone", Oxford English Dictionary, retrieved 22 January 2014, ...a situation in which a friendship exists between two people, one of whom has an unrequited romantic or sexual interest in the other... "Not all men in the 'friend zone' are bad guys". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8421.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8421.txt