To be honest, the moment you decide to pursue someone romantically the relationship is irrevocably altered. If someone attempts to place you in the category of "no romatic interest", I'd argue it's probably best to cut ties and move on. It's hard to do that if you keep hanging out with the person who does not share your romantic feelings.
To put it another way, neither dating or sex destroys a friendship. The desire to do either of those things means the friendship is already broken and you have a new kind of relationship. And trying to move one where each party has different objectives in the relationship is folly and absolutely provides sufficient grounds to simply stop seeing one another.
To put it another way, neither dating or sex destroys a friendship. The desire to do either of those things means the friendship is already broken and you have a new kind of relationship. And trying to move one where each party has different objectives in the relationship is folly and absolutely provides sufficient grounds to simply stop seeing one another.