friendzone is an English expression that means "Friend zone", in the translation into Portuguese. In popular culture, friendzone is the name given to a relationship in which a person wants to have a romantic relationship with another, but this person prefers to just keep the friendship.
O friendzone has the same principles as the so-called "platonic love", that is, when someone has feelings for someone else but is not reciprocated; a one-sided love.
Learn more about the meaning of Platonic love.
Typically, it is said that someone "fell in friendzone" when a relationship of friendship between two people begins to develop, and the intention of one of them is to establish a loving relationship with the other. THE friendzone it can be seen as a "phase", "moment" or "stage" in the construction of the relationship, when the feelings of a couple diverge, between the brotherly desire for friendship and passion.
To be in friendzone means be in love with a friend or friend, and not be matched.
When you say that someone "
got out of the friendzone"probably means that he managed to transform the friendship relationship into a loving one, or that he abandoned and gave up on "Platonic love".The term friendzone became popular around the world thanks to sitcom North American friends, in 1994, in which this relationship formatting was presented in one of the episodes.