Can a boy and girl be 'just friends'?

I'm posing this question as a weekend discussion because well, I know we're all going to be wandering around like zombies waiting for Monday

Thinking about this show and how the emphasis has always been on Adi's "lack of love" relationship with Pooja and Zoya's "lack of friendship" relationship with Yash...and how Adi+Zoya is the perfect combo of love and friendship...it makes me think if a boy and girl can be "just friends" - should they be if they can be an ideal marital couple?

According to Zoya, she has only made ONE friend in this entire world and that was Adi, who is now her husband... some would say she could have potentially ruined a perfectly good friendship by throwing love in the mix - she didn't, but the age old question has always been ...do you get into a relationship with a good friend if it could go sour?

Adi's childhood friend Pooja, who later became his wife...is the perfect example of love ruining a relationship...would Adi and Pooja have remained wonderful friends had they not gotten married? Perhaps.

Has anyone ever married their best friend? Gotten into a relationship with them? Did it work out or was it a mistake? Do stories like Adi & Zoya's actually hold true? If you didn't marry your friend (ie. maybe arranged marriage), how did you find friendship in your relationship?

I have no idea about friends turning into mad love... But imo arranged marriage turning into madly deeply love is doubtful looking some couples around me.

Love didn't ruin AdiJa relationship. The main problem in their relationship was lack of communication. Same with ZoSh marriage too.

Originally posted by: Subha_2601

Love didn't ruin AdiJa relationship. The main problem in their relationship was lack of communication. Same with ZoSh marriage too.

I won't agree with the cvs points that lack of love ruined AdiJa marriage and lack of friendship ruined ZoSh marriage. Adi did love Pooja but Pooja misunderstood his love as friendship.

AdiJa and ZoSh would have still been an ideal couple if they had understanding and communication between them. I am not going to completely blame PooSh. Somewhere AdiYa too couldn't understand their spouses and that was because of lack of understanding.

Coming to AdiYa marriage, so far it looks like an almost perfect marriage because there's understanding, trust and communication between them. Though Zoya hid the BM truth but luckily, Adi got to know the truth on time otherwise the matter would have been worst.

i like ur topic...and i have no direct answer..my only guess is...yes.. relationship works when there is love and friendship together..it can still work without either one of them..but it would be like living with a lot of compromises like pooja used to before yash came to her life...but what i ant to add is...sometimes even having everything..like love and friendship..there is a possibility for the things to get sour..its always patience.. maturity..care and perseverance to maintain the relation and make it work helps the relation work..thats is what makes people to be called successfully married couple..i see that in adiyas married life now..they r patient with each other.the work for maintaining their relationship..pooja worked for maintaining their marriage..but zoya is trying to keep the relationship ..thats what she did by signing the divorce sheets..she knew she loved him..and no paper can stop her from that..as shubha said..communication also comes as a part of maintaining the relationship..like aditya confessed he wouldnt have trusted her if he hadnt known rajveer was already plotting..

We often tend to draw lines between love and friendship, but frankly a relationship is a combination of both, and it is very very hard to distinguish what is the amount of friendship in it and what is love in it?

Adi & Pooja's love was more of a playful, college romance whereas Yash & Zoya's was a love which fought resistence. No one in the four of them had experienced that True Love & Pure Friendship.

i think that question has been in all our conciousness since it was raised in Maine Pyar Kiya and many bollywood films like dil to pagal hai, kuch kuch hota hai etc. I feel it depends on the level of emotional attachment between friends and if there is an attraction on either side. If both are single then chances are something will happen. I have known many 'good freinds' who end up dating and then have fallen out when the relationship went sour (heard same thing happened to KT & KD?)

I believe they can. Frankly tv shows and movies tend to make this thing such a big deal. of course in the real world, there are people of the opposite gender who were friends and fell in love but that doesn't indicate all guy - girl friendships turns into romantic love. and there are some who were friends, got into a relationship only for them to break up later.

Coming to the show, both Zosh and Adija relationships lacked communication and understanding. AdiYa were not able to understand their partners fully but poosh failed to express their needs and didn't try to look at their own flaws instead engaged in EMA. I am sure had poosh communicated, AdiYa would have made extra effort to change things for the better.