(CNN) — The importance of female friendships is often in the spotlight. But when it comes to the ties that bind men, research has shown that less than half of men report being satisfied with their ...

Here's the thing nobody wants to admit: we're all still weirdly hung up on whether men and women can actually be friends.

I don’t tell my male friends that I love them. Saying that very short sentence to these men, who enhance my life enormously, is hard. It makes me feel vulnerable, uncomfortable and, well, it just ...

When model and actor Emily Ratajkowski said in an interview, "I just have zero straight men in my life, unless they're a romantic interest. In the hierarchy of needs, that's at the top of the pyramid, ...

Men’s lack of deep, close friendships has been in the spotlight lately. A recent Pew Research Center study found that 54% of women say they turn to a friend for emotional support, but only 38% of men ...

Guys who never end up in the friend zone know how to create chemistry and set the tone so things don't drift into 'just ...

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” has a reverse Bechdel situation. There are men on that show, but when they get together in scenes, they’re almost always talking about Buffy. Every man on the series is ...

Femi Famutimi is an experienced writer writing within the gaming space for the last four years. He has been featured on Esports Insider, DashFight, and WePlay. He enjoys fighting games especially ...

At 46, I joined a club no one wants to be part of—I became a widower. I thought my wife Jane, ten years younger, would outlive me. Leukemia had other plans. When I stepped up to give her eulogy, I was ...

I have previously published two posts on the "friend zone"—the area of mismatched romantic or sexual expectations between friends. In the first, I shared some possible techniques to escape the friend ...