But then the wedding comes under threat, and Matt and Lily are thrown together in the efforts to save the day and – yet again – sparks fly.
And surely they can be amicable, as this week is about his best friend’s wedding too? So he will be civil, stay out of her way as much as he can, and get on with the celebrations. Lily may have broken his heart, but he moved on. And Matt, too, is completely and utterly fine. She might have to attend her best friend’s wedding with the ex-boyfriend she never got over, on a gorgeous Greek island that’s so small it’s impossible to avoid him, but she is determined to be friendly. She was going to just ignore Matt and enjoy her best friend’s wedding… Lily is fine. She was thirty-three years old and way beyond having issues seeing an ex. She wasn’t going to pass out from her now-galloping heart. Are We Just Friends? gives a clear indication as to why we do what we do as human primates and provides a clear understanding as to the types of behavior we undertake when faced with the possibility of intimate thoughts toward those we would consider friends on a platonic level. Although many men and women would confirm that they have a friend who is from the opposite sex and the relationship is specifically platonic, do they truly believe this? Or is there something more between them on an emotional level? The majority of humans tend to shy away from the honesty buried beneath our subconscious in order to cache our true desires for the opposite sex. There is an evolution at work, and many of our desires and nondesires come from these evolutionary traits that we carry as primates. A lot of us do not understand the science behind our behavior, and we are uncertain as to why we have certain feelings toward others we consider just friends. Many of us can think of a person whom we are friends with who is not of the same gender, and many more of us have become blind to the fact that there is usually always something more that hovers within this limbic space of platonic friendship. Platonic friendships have been the topic of heavy discussion over the past decade, with more and more people turning to social media and “friending” those who are unknown to them, particularly the opposite sex.