Friend zone
PLATONIC RELATIONSHIP WHEREIN ONE PERSON WISHES TO ENTER INTO A ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP, WHILE THE OTHER DOES NOT
The Friend Zone; Friend Zone; Friend zoning; Friendzone; Friendzoning
In popular culture, the friend zone (or friendzone) is a conceptual place describing a situation in which one person in a mutual friendship wishes to enter into a romantic or sexual relationship with the other person, while the other does not. The person whose romantic advances were rejected is then said to have "entered" (or to have been "put in") the friend zone, with the sense that they are stuck there.