Be Careful With Male Friends

As a single woman especially a seminarian-one needs to be careful with male friends. People have this fabulous tendency to think that if you have a male friend who you love-that they are obviously your "special friend." Now I find this to be absolutely hilarious and I think my male friend who is more closer to a brother than anything remotely close to a boyfriend or "special friend," also thinks it is just as hilarious. When I talk about him-which is only natural since he is a fairly big part of my life-people just naturally assume we are dating or one of us wants to date. When my friends then hear me talk about him they immediately assume that because I have a very close friendship with a guy than there has to be some other feelings involved. WRONG! I just want to state for the record we are friends-unrelated siblings. Saying that I should date my friend, we will call him Indian Brother for now, is like telling me I should date my younger brother-it just doesn't work.
Now I am sure this is a common thing for most women and men-as it is often seen as impossible for men and women to be "just friends." I don't know though as it seems like in seminary it has become a running joke that the single women are all here to get our degrees but to also find a husband.
One friend even got asked by her consistory if she was going to seminary to instead of getting her MDiv degree to get her MRS degree. It seems a bit ridiculous that was the response to a single woman would go to seminary just to find a husband. To anyone out there that is thinking that this might be a worthy approach in the "husband hunt" let me clear this up for you and give it to you straight-you probably won't find anyone at seminary and it is a lot of work just to find a husband! Plus if God has not called you to it then you are probably not destined to take this path.
Just some thoughts for today!