@leonsamax Don’t let the friend zone or ladder theory warp your reality. Those are just ways men excuse themselves from their unrequited feelings and trying to drag out platonic relationships with their crushes.
Reality is a lot more complex than that. It’s a dangerous incel concept that will trap you into believing all women are viable partners if only they’d give you the chance.
It definitely seems like Yo is on the path to the "friend zone" but that place only exists in your mind, if you’re only interested in dating a woman and she’s not interested in you, move on, it’s just going to poison your soul. If you can shut that shit off (takes some serious mental fortitude) friendship is still a real possibility but you gotta live your life, if those feelings can’t be boxed up and put away, it’s nooooo good. Casual dates are easy to shut off, lifelong unrequited love is not... therein lies the danger.
Tl;dr: friend zone is a totally made up incel construct mental mind game to excuse being a bitch. The only person putting themselves into the friend zone is the blinded man who needs to get slapped back into reality.