I want to add to Bond's comments about friendships across genders. It can be done. The other site is dead wrong and quite deep into fear mongering about platonic friendships. We all can be friends with the opposite sex without crossing the "unspoken" line for they enrich us.
Two of my late father's close friends were female and they've been friends over 25 years without crossing the line. I am forever grateful to those wonderful women. BTW, they are not plain Janes. They are attractive and very happily married to their husbands.
It can be done and it has been done since time immortal.
