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I don’t know why authors refuse to have characters have platonic relationships. When the mc has a friend the ml wants to isolate him from, authors always make it so this friend is actually romantically interested in mc. This gives a valid reason to cut them off since their feelings would make mc uncomfortable. PROBLEM that makes the ml abusive isolating behavior less bad cause now it’s excusable. If my friend is in an abusive relationship I will fight with my all to get them out. Not because I want to date or marry them but because I love my friends and I want them to be treated like human beings. There is absolutely no excuse to force them to go no contact, stop introducing excuses into the narrative.