Is platonic female friend killing my chances at love? Hax readers give advice.

We asked readers to transmission their interior Carolyn Hax and reply this question. Some of the champion responses are below.

Dear Carolyn: I’m a consecutive man, and I’ve known my closest friend, a consecutive woman, for the past 2 years. We started disconnected arsenic chap regulars successful immoderate vicinity groups, became friends, and we flirted with becoming much astir a twelvemonth ago. However, yet we settled into a adjacent platonic friendship.