To me, there are different types of best friends. You have your college best friend, your siblings who have always been your best friends, your work best friend, your high school best friend, and your true best friend.
Most girls will apologize to their friends when they spend to much time with their boyfriend. Most girls don't like to feel dependent on another person. Some even have their own girl code when they start to date a new guy and how they can't put their friends on the back burner just because they now have a boyfriend. While I do think having time apart and spending time with your friends is very important, I will not apologize for my boyfriend being my best friend.
Yes, I know, shame on me. How could I not call one of my lifelong friends my best friend? Don't get me wrong, they are some of my closest friends, but your best friend makes you feel a way that none of your other friends make you feel. Your best friend not only pushes you and encourages you, but they will go so far out of their way for you that you will question what you did to deserve this human being in your life.
I spend the majority of days with my boyfriend and I am never bored. We can be sitting watching Prison Break going on the 7th hour and I will still be interested, I am never bored when I am in his company. This my annoy my friends when I'm always with him but he is a huge part of my life. I spend so much time with him because I have some of my best times and my most obnoxious laughs when I am with him.
On my worst days, he is there. When my anxiety creeps up on me, even though he has never experienced the feeling of anxiety, he knows how to calm me down and what to say to make me feel at peace. He is definitely someone I can count on to be there for me at any hour of the day or night whenever I text or call, he answers.
There is no drama with him. He will always give me an honest opinion about anything, an outfit, school, or friends. He will tell me if an outfit looks bad or if I was wrong in a certain situation and I appreciate him for that. It is hard to find honest people out there. When I am in his arms I am at peace and that is something I will always be grateful for.
Of course, I still hang out with my friends and he hangs out with his and we do things separately but when we reunite at the end of the day, nothing beats that feeling. No true friend should make you feel bad for spending extra time with the person you love.
It is important to still make time for other things and obligations and to not lose track of where you came from but it is not a sin to add a new person into that mix. It is a blessing to love someone who is also your best friend, even through the hard times, you make it through them together and come out stronger and that is more than I can say for some of the friendships I have lost over the years.
