So one thing that I find contradicting to the typical TRP knowledge is that if you don't make a move on a girl you like soon enough, you will be put in the friendzone. However, I hear a lot of stories contradicting this.

For example, I have a friend who met a girl and they started hanging out as friends for a whole summer, he never made a move, they just hung out almost every day. The girl did not have feelings at the time, and the guy never made a move so you would think that hes stuck in the friend zone, but when he left for college after the summer was over, she suddenly had a change of heart and decided that she wanted him and even made the move to kiss him at a party and asked to be his girlfriend. What is this?

Another example, my dad had liked my mom for a long time before they started dating. Apparently he was treating her very well like she was his girlfriend before they were even together. He eventually asked her out and she shot him down and that was that, they carried on being friends. Eventually one of my mom's friends told her that she would hook my dad up with one of her friends. She then had the realization that he was the one for her and she couldnt stand the idea of him dating someone else, so she finally told my dad that she would date him.

I suppose one connection between these two stories is that both my friend's girlfriend and my mom both did not use dating apps. My friend's girlfriend "didn't think it was for her" and my mom obviously was way before dating apps. But overall what is the deal with these two events? They started out as friends and eventually realized they had feelings for each other. What would this be called? It seems to contradict the idea that if you don't make a move fast enough, that she'll put you in the friendzone forever and I'm curious to what the TRP community thinks of this.