A Nigerian woman who goes by Mary Ani on TikTok has shared her story to support the idea that men and women can have true platonic relations.

She claims that due to housing issues during her time in college, she had to spend more than six months living with a male acquaintance. She claimed that throughout that time, they slept on the same bed and shared a separate room.

She insisted that her acquaintance never broke any bounds despite their tight living situation. She claimed that he always treated her with respect and never made offensive remarks or amorous advances. When she resided there, she also mentioned that he had a girlfriend who came over sometimes.

The woman claimed that even after she moved out, they continued to be friends and that the experience showed her that men and women could have simply platonic relationships.

She went on to say that rather than accepting that various people are capable of different sorts of connections, those who maintain that such friendships are impossible may be projecting their own experiences or personal limitations onto others.

Read what she said below;

“I remember when I was in uni and had accommodation issues. I ended up staying with my male friend for over six months. To this day, people don’t believe me when I tell them nothing happened between us. And mind you, it was a self-con space. That’s to say we sh@r£d a b£d. He never crossed the boundary, not even by mistake.

There was never an inappr0pr!ate comment, tor*ch, or adv**ance of any kind. And yes, he had a girlfriend who came around occasionally. I stayed there for over six months and left with our friendship intact. So if someone asks me today, if a man and a woman can be just friends, my answer would be absolutely yes, because I have lived it.

But if you ask someone else, maybe they’ll tell you it’s impossible and in most cases that answer says a lot about who they are than about what is actually possible the reason most people believe that men and women cannot have platonic friendship is because they cannot have a friend without throwing themselves or making adva**nces at so they project their fears their limitation their experiences onto others it’s as simple as that….”