can a man and a woman be just friend?

nope....they can't...maybe yes until one of them got married...maybe in some rare cases there are people of difference gender just become friends but not in my case...

I got this woman-friend who I was closed with. She is the nice person kind of a lady. A goody two shoes. Not my taste of girl but some one I can be close to as friend(Am I explaining too long). Let us say that we just do not have the attraction to each other as a couple. We belong as friend and that's all. Maybe we got a thingy before but every time I was free she got some one and vice versa until the day where I was free and she got engaged. We were closed but we know where the line is and we never crossed that line(I think I'm babbling and no one would understand me now). We were closed and her family knows me and I was like the family friend.

One day she got engaged and I was fine with that and we still remained friends. The day she got married everything changes. I started to shy away because as a man I know what a man would feel seeing his wife closed to another man. She do not wants to break our friendship and so do I. The husband got very jealous and pity her he gave bad remarked to her. She never told me about it but some friends told me that she had been telling them her internal saga of conflicts because of the jealousy. So, now I hide away from her and breaking the ties just to let her live in peace. I did it because I am a friend and I care of her happiness. She sought after me but I need to live in stealth mode from her. I hope her marriage life is in peace now with me out of the picture.

I lost a good friend. I hope maybe one day when I got married and with children of my own I would bump into them and we can all be friends together.