I wanted to post this somewhere, but I had no clue where to put it. 😐 So, I just made a thread, teehee. ♥ Discuss, I suppose. o.o

I know a girl who broke up with a guy and she told him she wanted to “still be friends.” He said, “No thanks.” She wondered why he couldn’t fall back to being just friends after they had a romantic relationship. I came up with the “McDonalds Analogy” to try and explain it in a simple way that would help all women understand this tough question.

Imagine if you went to McDonalds a lot and ordered a Big Mac Combo meal. A Big Mac, Large Fries and a Coke. You really like this meal. One day, you pull up to the drivethrough and order the Big Mac Combo meal and the girl tells you, “I’m sorry – you can have the Big Mac and the Coke, but you can’t get fries with that anymore.” You think about this for a moment, and sure – the Big Mac is the centerpiece of the meal, but McDonalds has some really good fries and you like their fries with your meal. So you say, “I’ve been able to get fries with that before, why can’t I have fries with my Big Mac combo anymore?” The girls says, “Well, I just think it is better if you only have the Big Mac and the Coke from here on out.”

At this point, a lot of guys are going to go to Wendy’s or BK and see if they can get fries with their combo at that drivethrough window. But there are some guys who REALLY like McDonalds Big Macs and they might think, “If I keep coming here and ordering the Big Mac and Coke, maybe she’ll change her mind and give me some fries with that later.” So they will keep on getting the combo without the fries until the deal breaker happens: One day that guy is going to order the Big Mac and Coke and then he’s going to pull up a little bit to pay, and someone else is going to pull up to the drivethrough speaker and order the “Big Mac Combo” and he is going to hear the girl say, “Would you like fries with that?”

That’s why guys don’t like to be friends with a girl who breaks up with them.

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Hahaha, thats an amusing analogy. I would say, as a guy, that yes it is true.
Not sure about the last part, the reason behind refusing to be friends, but I get the reasoning.

Pretty much, but I've never really been in
such a situation. I've never been afterfriendzoned,
but friendzoned first hand.

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Are the fries supposed to be a metaphor for all the stuff you do whilst dating? And the fact behind it is, you're not going to like it when she dates someone else?
I've never been under this situation before so I'm just putting two and two together. Am I getting four as the answer here? XD

If that is the case though, that kinda makes sense. Shame they used McDonalds and Big Macs to explain this though...

@tactics: naah, I think they used fries randomly to explain that something "misses" from the "usual combo" that depicts the partner-like relationship. And for the food analogy, is normal, because love&care in a relationship is just as primarily necessity as eating (or breathing).

Anyway I personally LOATHE people that "afterfriendzone"(Mams®2009) you after breaking with you (starting from them I mean): its like looking down the other, like saying (same analogy) "here, you still can have the leftovers".
And I loathe even more people that make the dumb face and ask "why dont you agree to this?" to the other person.

Never happened to me, though is a utterly fugly way of behaviour, completely ruling out the other person's feelings.

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That's known as a "coin".

Oh, thanks. Too much D&D.

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@tactics: naah, I think they used fries randomly to explain that something "misses" from the "usual combo" that depicts the partner-like relationship. And for the food analogy, is normal, because love&care in a relationship is just as primarily necessity as eating (or breathing).

Oh I see.
Well that something would have been missing even if you were friends before right? I mean, a frienship relationship isn't the same as a dating relationship. So it's always going to be different...

Ok I understand using food, but seriously, McDonalds? 🤣

Well we could go with BK, but the point is the same, and that is why guys refuse friendship, after the break up... there are other options, like occasionally coming to McDonald and getting the whole combo, but you know only in special dates and special offers.

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Thats actually pretty clever. I know I hate being in that situation.

😕 Eh I don't get it. What are the fries supposed to mean. BK and Wendy's too. What's wrong with just being friends? At least you save something

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Thats actually pretty clever. I know I hate being in that situation.

What (s?)he said.

Looks like most males seem to get this analogy...

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This is a pretty funny analogy, and quite accurate at that.
It really is a horrible thing to say to a guy when you onesidedly decide to break up (I imagine the same for girls)
The person being dumped may very well still hold strong feelings for the other. In that case asking to still be friends is like kicking a guy in the nuts after you already punched him in the gut.
Or, holding to food analogies, like showing a big mac to a starving man and then giving it to the fat guy next to him. Not the best analogy, I admit.

When both parties have no strong feelings for one another, and the breakup is in mutual agreement, then a friendship may remain.

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The highest of all human gifts -
Then you have surrendered to the Devil
And must surely perish. - J.W. von Goethe

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When both parties have no strong feelings for one another, and the breakup is in mutual agreement, then a friendship may remain.

I agree with this.
As a girl, I still understand this analogy. I don't want to be friends if you broke up with me (and I still like you). That bothers me.

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Or, holding to food analogies, like showing a big mac to a starving man and then giving it to the fat guy next to him. Not the best analogy, I admit.

Oh Contraire, what a great analogy it is for said situation, which is usually filled with a lot of akward silence.

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Wow! It makes so much sense.

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