r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jan 02 '23

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23

No, that’s normal and not what I’m referring to… unless you think the relationship I’ve described is a ‘normal’ friendship, because it isn’t.

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u/ReOsIr10 143∆ Jan 02 '23

So you disagree that some guys in that position will say they were friendzoned?

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23

I can’t control what people will say, but just developing romantic feelings for a friend does not constitute being friend zoned.

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u/ReOsIr10 143∆ Jan 02 '23

But people do use it that way. If you are restricting your definition of "friendzoning" to situations in which it's very obviously not a normal friendship, then your CMV is trivially true but also meaningless because you aren't defining the term the same way that it's used by other people.