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My Boyfriend Is My Boyfriend, Not My Best Friend

He's not my best friend. He's not my friend. He's so much more.

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I love you so much. I met you over two years ago, and I fell in love. My heart dropped when I saw you smile, and that was it. I was yours. And now we share everything together. I let you in on my life, and we decide things as a team. But you’re my boyfriend. Not my best friend.

A best friend is a person’s closest friend. My boyfriend is more than a close friend. I am close to him on a deeper level than what I would be with a friend. I don’t love him in the way I would love my best friend.

I wouldn’t want to lessen my friendship with my best friend.

She and I talk about different things, and go to each other for advice that we can’t talk to anyone else about.

But my decision making process is different. I take her advice, and make my decision from there. When I discuss things with my boyfriend, I make the decision with him. We work as a partnership, as my best friend and I work together as teammates.

Though I do trust both of these people completely, I trust them in different ways. My boyfriend I trust to protect me, and care for me in a way that a man should. My best friend I know will be there for me when I feel like giving up, and need a girls’ night.

If I need a night of binge watching some show or watching a terrible movie, I go to her. If I need to go shopping and want honest feedback on my swimsuit choice, I go to her. If I need someone to let me look as awful as I feel, I go to her.

My boyfriend may do those things with me. He and I may enjoy them together. But he isn’t my best friend. He is so much more. He is the man that I one day hope to marry. He is the one I hope to make decisions with, go through life with. He will be the one that sees me in every part of me.. He will get me tea in the morning (hopefully WITHOUT burning the house down…), and hold me when I am sick.

He is more than a best friend.

He understands me at a deeper level, and I understand him.

He is the one that no matter what he does, I still love him.

My best friend is amazing and I am able to go to her for anything. But our relationship is not overshadowed by my relationship with my boyfriend. I love him differently. I love him deeply. I love him in a way that I couldn’t love another person.

If I was to call him my best friend, I feel like I would be making it seem as if our relationship was able to be put on hold when life got busy. Yes, I am that girlfriend. I love spending my days with him. And yes, I do go see my friends. I know that even if I don’t go see them everyday, or talk everyday, we will be okay.

I have to talk to my boyfriend every day. Even if it’s just a good morning text or a short phone call. It’s just how our relationship differs.

My best friend and I can go weeks without talking or seeing each other, but when we do get together it’s like no time has passed. I love that about us.

My boyfriend and I are not best friends...we aren’t even friends. We are so much more.

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