One of my best friends and I spent a lot of time together, we went away together
several times over the years but we never slept together, neither of us saw the other one naked, he was more like my older brother than anything else, I always called his mother mum but some of his friends his age could not believe that we weren’t in a relationship we just never thought of it, most of those guys were into casual sex
and were to my knowledge never in a long term relationship.
It was not until recently that my husband said that G did not like him because S took me away overseas away from G, as G is now dead I cannot ask him that