So it's friendzone week yay. First time I saw this topic i saw this comment from /u/storfish

I have a theory about this. women and men have vastly different concepts of friendship. my buddies and I have shared activities we like to do and a few inside jokes but otherwise our friendships aren't that deep. Also more importantly we don't share our feelings

women, though, they get real with their friends. my sisters and their friends will dissect a social interaction and "what so-and-so meant when she said that" for hours. they talk about feelings, they have pet names for each other, their friendships are deeper than half of my relationships so when guys find themselves being used by a female friend as an "emotional tampon" it's not some kind of unique treatment. girls are all each other's emotional tampons as a matter of course. he expects sexual favors because to him, his emotional involvement has gone beyond his concept of friendship and into relationship territory.

Lovely little comment. Apparently it was also /u/sublimemongrel 's theory as well.

On to the point

I actually don't want to talk about the friendzone or orbiters ..but relationships

To men sharing feelings and getting to each other is some special bonding event with someone they love

To women sharing feelings is something they've done a million times with people they kinda like

In other words . To women sharing feelings isn't a big deal. But to men it is a big deal.

[Q4W] Is there a difference between the level of emotional openness you have with your closest girl-friends and your boyfriend/partner?

Are you more intimate with your girl-friends or your boyfriends? Or is the about the same?

Does it depend of the length of the relationships? Like a girl-friend of 10 years would get more openness than a boyfriend/partner of 3 years

Does it depend on the seriousness of the relationship? Like a husband of 5 years would get more openness than a girl-friend of 10 years?

[Bonus Question] Considering that you have multiple outlets for feelings and emotional intimacy unlike men who only have their girlfriend .......When you break up is it mostly just the sexual intimacy that you miss?

[Bonus Question 2] Is emotional intimacy(sharing of each others feelings) necessary for you to fall in love? Have you ever fell in love with someone who didn't open up /share his feelings?