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MattG comments on Open thread, Apr. 01 - Apr. 05, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 April 2015 02:58:45AM 2 points [-]

Having a friendship and a relationship are incredibly different but overlapping skillsets. If you simply set out to be very good friends with woman, but not have sexual relationships, you'd probably learn a lot of bad habits you'd have to unlearn when you decided you wanted to have a physical relationship.