We are still friends but it is a platonic friendship.
Even if read in the divorce court, they could pass as inspired by a merely platonic friendship.
I was beginning to think that you had decided upon a platonic friendship after all!
Despite this, their platonic friendship is often closer than that of lovers.
They develop a close relationship, which begins as a platonic friendship, but becomes a romance by series end.
This argues that the relationship between the two, although strong and close, is ultimately a platonic friendship.
Not knowing anyone else in the city, he and Jamie quickly develop a strong platonic friendship.
It may also represent a platonic but intense friendship between two men.
But both men are best together, as flawed survivors finding home in their platonic friendship.
As the days turn to months, the narrator and his landlord develop a platonic friendship with one another.