This is the kind of advice more young men need. The odds of you turning a girl "friend" in to a girlfriend is quite low, especially when she turns down the idea of you being more than a friend to her. You are far more likely to have prolonged pain and frustration by trying to change this sort of thing.

I will go a step further and say that men and women really should not seek to be friends. Yes, the lies about equality will tell us that men and women have no real differences other than what is socially constructed, but this is certainly not the case. Men and women are indeed different, and this includes how they interact with their own sex versus the opposite sex. This will often create an uneven friendship where the man will provide the emotional support that he normally would to a woman while not getting the sexual reciprocation in return. Whether or not a woman is aware of this, a man is very unlikely to do this same thing to one of his man friends. With male friends, the sexual dynamics are not at play like they would be with women in general.

This is often why men get frustrated when they are providing the traditional boyfriend treatment to a woman while not getting the traditional girlfriend treatment to a woman. It is not that women are obligated to "return the favor" in these cases, but rather that there is a lack of recognition by society (and especially women in society) with what is happening. Rather than telling the man that he should not be placing this sort of investment with a woman who is not his girlfriend, he is told that he should "value the friendship." Well, the other part of the problem is that a woman cannot truly provide the type of friendship a man needs either. That sort of thing requires another man. So when a man engages in "friendship" with a woman, he is providing the emotional validation to a woman while getting neither a proper friendship or sexual relationship out of it.

Those who are too heavily invested in the ideal of equality may find the idea that a woman cannot fulfill a man's friendship needs offensive. But when you recognize that men and women are not interchangeable even when it comes to friendship, you can then move away from the idea that men and women should seek friendship between each other. Men who come to this understanding can help themselves and other young men not fall in the trap of playing a frustrating game where the outcome is almost certain failure.

Women flirt (lightly) with their male friends to hold them in orbit. That's her gravity, that someday, it might happen. If she doesn't give you that hope that your relationship might go somewhere then you'd reconcile with the fact that

1. You want romance.
2. You'll never get it from her.
3. Better to move on to other prospects.

And boom just like that you're out of orbit dating another girl, and she is getting 0 of your time resources and attention.

Simple rule. Once you make the jump to reveal your romantic intentions there are only two outcomes. She says yes and you start dating. She says no or one of the many euphemisms for "no" like "I really don't know if it's the right time" (see that if you wait it might be the right time) "I've never really thought of you that way" (see that she might if you stick around) "I want to just be friends for now" (see that she covered now but not later)

All these are "NO" with a side of "when I'm 29 and desperate if you are truly the best I can do.....then.....maybe, I'll let you marry me so I can take half your stuff"

Anyway like I said, she either says yes, and you start dating, or she says no or one of the plethora of girl euphemisms for "NO" and you thank her. Say something like "I'm really looking for romance not casual friendship" when she puts out whatever version of "Let's be friends" politely excuse yourself ghost her and move on. If she asks about you later (as they often do, as they want to real back in orbital men whom have broken free) just tell her you are busy working on other relationships and don't really have the time or inclination to "be her friend" besides you don't want to make a potential romantic partner confused.

If you have romantic feelings for a girl, it is your weakness to be exploited like a strip mine. Either date or dump. There is no reality where you remain more than acquaintances.

Save friendship with girls for girls YOU friend zone. Not for girls that friend zone you.

For some men, the friendzone is their sexual strategy. It's their version of playing the long game. All of us have approach anxiety, and many of us here have failed to close the deal with a girl. Their strategy is to get to know then first, be their friend, get emotionally close to them and then the sex will come later and they are patient. It is awe inspiring the level of patience and waiting they will do to finally get down her pants. The manosphere have told us over and over that this strategy DOES NOT WORK. Once in the friendzone, it is almost impossible to escape from it, although there two ways for a guy to escape the friendzone:

1. Hard Reset: Basically disappear out of her life and go on a self improvement junket then re-approach her years later now a new buff, muscular Chad with a great job and new found wealth.

2. You were never in the friendzone---you were the back-up plan. The smart ones will keep guys around as a back-up option in the guise of friends just in case The Wall hits and she didn't land that millionaire, CEO, Astronaut rap star. Women can also play the long game too. You can be that perfect gut to marry and have kids with...AFTER she has her fun riding the carousel. she just have to breadcrumb you to stay in her orbit long enough for her to be ready. Ouick story I read: Computer geek and his "friend' were out drinking. In a heart to heart moment, she tells him that if we are not both married after 30 they are marrying each other. Even in her drunken haze, he could tell she was dead serious.

Lastly, I have always seen guys in the friendzone as predatory and creepy. Like the OP that is dying for her ass. He is willing like a hunter to track and stalk their prey, until that moment of weakness, when the right combination of horniness, booze, dry spell, self esteem issues, etc for a girl to drop her guard then BANG! he is down her pants and finally gets the ass he has been lusting for years.

And on top of the last blurb of advice, never ever play this game even for a second with a woman that you know or have reason to strongly suspect has had one night stands in the past with men that did not and were never going to commit to her.

It's one of the clearest indicators in woman-speak that she does not respect you in the slightest if she makes you jump through any hoops at all to get a even crumb of what she gave to other men for nearly nothing.

Never, EVER let yourself get put in the friendzone. If a bitch tries it, simply say "I don't want to be your FRIEND" and leave.

Apparently there are "respectful girls that are not narcissistic"