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Bromance is a mixture of the word brother and romance and it can be defined as a close friendship between straight men with no sexual desires on each other.

Achieving Success Together.

“To be successful in a profession or in a business, to become wealthy cannot be compared to making the lives of your fellow men better. This could bring immerse satisfaction” —Lee Kuan Yew 2004

In my opinion, bromance refers to being successful together as not only in the wealth and business aspect but also in Read more →

bromance: simply put, a romance between guys/men, but rather than intimate love, it’s more of a brotherly love. Among my friends, it is mostly used with ‘straight’ men as it could be ambiguous when used with homosexual men.

A bromance is a friendship between two guys that seem almost intimate, due to their closeness and loyalty. Television shows and movies often have some sense of bromance between some male characters. Offscreen, male actors with great chemistry often have some bromance going on too.

A term coined to discuss a close relationship between two guys that isn’t romantic or sexual in nature (but is it really not), but is usually rather intense, and seems to mirror the relationships that ‘girl friends’ have. Straight Males (which are different from straight males) are very sensitive about being labelled as ‘gay’ or deviating from normative Straight Person Read more →

Brooomance, nothing really gay about it.

Not, that there’s anything wrong with being gay

Bromance, shouldn’t be ashamed or hide it

I love you in the most heterosexual way

–Bromance (Ryan Higa, Chester See 2012)

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when I see the word bromance? This song. Released by popular Youtuber at that time Ryan Higa (otherwise known Read more →

Bromance is a step above normal friendship between two (maybe more) males, particularly heterosexuals. Not exactly like family & definitely distinct from lovers. Maybe a grey area is really what it is. 

Bromance is a brotherly friendship but typically men show extra affection in bromance relationships as compared to other friends.

According to urban dictionary, bromance is “the complicated love and affection shared by two straight males”. In this intimate male friendships, they are allowed to share secrets and even express love to each other openly. It is essentially the same kind of relationship that girls share with their ‘BFF’. Opposing to the stereotypical views of how a male same-sex friendships Read more →

Bromance is a very close relationship shared between 2 males.

It is where both of them are comfortable in sharing their thoughts, feelings, secrets, etc. with each other. That person is your confidant and you genuinely care for him. 

Typically, the relationship is between 2 heterosexual males. 

I am not saying that gays are usually left out from Read more →

A bromance is an affectionate but platonic friendship shared between two males. Just like the one between Ted and Marshall in the American sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Here’s how you can initiate a bromance today

Bromance is the friendly, platonic love between two males, in which they actively support and care for one another. It is a homosocial relationship that is distinguished from regular friendship because of its strong emotional bonds. Time has even released an article based on a Men and Masculinities study, which discovered that men find their Read more →

5 years ago, famous YouTuber nigahiga released a song all about this wonderful phenomenon, bromance. A blended term based off of the social understanding of romance – usually used to describe affection between heterosexual couples – and brother – in recent years, brother is no longer only used to refer to siblings, but also used Read more →

Bromance is a portmanteau of the words ‘brother’ and ‘romance’. Ironically, it is most conventionally used to refer to a platonic relationship between males rather than a romantic one. It is commonly used to describe male friends that are extremely close.

A blend formed from the words ‘bro’ and ‘romance’; how men describe performing emotional labour for each other because the very act is so marked it needs a name all on its own (yikes!). It is often used to divorce bromantic individuals from the idea of homosexuality because Straight Men having feelings is Not Allowed. Read more →