So pretty soon I'm going to be moving into the same apartment building as a friend of mine. Let me point out that her living there had absolutely no bearing on my choice to move there - in fact, it was the last resort.

Anyway, she's fun to chill with but a little too giddy for my taste. The kind of girl who is going to expect me to do all this stupid shit with her that I have no interest in..a lot of us have been there so you probably know what I mean.

Now let me point out that I have no problem being friends with girls, and I've got no intention of ever fucking this girl for so many reasons I don't care to elaborate on. I haven't been "friendzoned" by her. I've got plates, and I've got friends. They are who they are. Effectively, I have friendzoned her.

I seem to pick friends pretty good with regards to the kind of people that interest me, but it seems like everytime, since I was a young guy, that I develop friendships with girls that they seem to lose all respect for me as a man and end up trying to bitch to me about their problems or drag me along to mundane shitty day to day activities that they do, both of which I have no interest in.

So how do I stop this pattern? I want her to respect me as a man and have a decent friendship that doesn't have her expecting me to be "that guy" that i described above. I've got this situation for the next year at least so I'd like to know how to start this off right and set boundaries with this girl so I can do this next year right since she is probably the person I'll be seeing most often just by virtue of our proximity to one another.