It isn’t: if you’re romantically interested in someone, seeing that person going out with someone else, or hearing about how happy/unhappy s/he is with the significant other, is extremely painful, and usually vastly more so than the benefit of a friendship.
Replace “you” with “I”. You’re probably generalizing from one example/other-optimizing.
He is generalising, but it isn’t from one example. It is hardly an uncommon phenomenon, even if it is not universal. (Inserting ‘often’ would be a suitable alternative to limiting to “I”).
You’re probably generalizing from one example/other-optimizing.
Omega forbid!
I realize the phrasing is miscalibrated, I only inteded suggesting that it’s not always the case that the friendship is much better than no relation at all.
Although I do believe that it’s often the case that friendship is the losing option...
Replace “you” with “I”. You’re probably generalizing from one example/other-optimizing.
He is generalising, but it isn’t from one example. It is hardly an uncommon phenomenon, even if it is not universal. (Inserting ‘often’ would be a suitable alternative to limiting to “I”).
Omega forbid!
I realize the phrasing is miscalibrated, I only inteded suggesting that it’s not always the case that the friendship is much better than no relation at all.
Although I do believe that it’s often the case that friendship is the losing option...