A MAN and woman have abruptly ended their two-year friendship after he unexpectedly made romantic advances, it has emerged.
28-year-old Sophie Rodriguez was left baffled after best friend Joseph Turner stopped replying to texts, unfollowed her on all platforms and posted ‘no fakes, no flakes’ a matter of hours after going in for a kiss.
She said: “Joe was like a protective big brother, spotting red flags in all the guys I date and even warning off men who approached in the pub. Always there, always supportive.
“We’d watch romcoms where the girl falls in love with her geeky male sidekick and we’d snuggle and laugh about how that could never be us because we were totally platonic and always would be.
“Which is why it was so weird when he tried to kiss me, literally out of nowhere. Once I got over my shock and said I didn’t feel that way but assured him it wouldn’t change anything between us, he left and I’ve not seen him since.
“I guess he’s embarrassed that a momentary feeling overwhelmed him. Pretty sure he’s not always felt this way. No man would put in so many hours and tell so many lies just for the vanishingly distant hope of a shag. Would he?”
Turner said: “She said she didn’t want to ruin the friendship by introducing sex. Which ruined the friendship.”
