SUBREDDIT: r/askwomenadvice
TITLE: Why spend time with a friend instead of a friend you're also attracted to?
POST: I (50M) have a beautiful friend (42F). Unfortunately for me she only wants to be friends. She has no problem being with whoever she wants so I can only assume I don't make the attractiveness cut. Such is life. So I tell my heart to stop daydreaming and put effort into online dating.

Here's what I don't understand. I'm not particularly special, seriously, I'm not. She can easily find people who are attractive and have all my positive attributes. Yet she spends a lot of her rare free time, she's a single mom, alone with me doing couples stuff. For example sipping wine and falling asleep in my arms while we're watching a movie on the sofa. Or texting to tell me that she misses me and wants to have dinner at a newly opened romantic restaurant. Can you explain why she spends her time with me, when she could be spending her time with somebody that she's also attracted to?
TL;DR: 
why would a woman with plenty of options spend her time doing couples stuff with a guy who's only a friend? 