How many times have you seen tweets and status’ criticizing girls for claiming their boyfriend as their best friend? I’ll tell you how many times I’ve personally seen it: so many that if I had a dollar for it, I’d be richer than Donald Trump.
This crazy stigma that’s going around is completely inaccurate stating that your boyfriend can’t be your best friend because he’s your boyfriend. If that statement didn’t make sense to you, it’s because it doesn’t make sense at all.
It’s possible for a person to have two best friends. The definition of a best friend, as defined by Google, is “a person’s closest friend”. Nowhere does it say anything about having only one. And your boyfriend is a pretty close friend, isn’t he?
Best friends are the special people that you have in your life, the ones that you tell everything and anything too. They are the first people you call to make plans with, the first people you Facetime when you want their opinion on an outfit. Sounds like a boyfriend description too, huh?
They’re the people that cheer you up, the people that watch out for you, the people you cry on when something's wrong. The ones who care and aren’t fake. But nowhere is there a saying in the definition that it can’t be your boyfriend or that you’re only allowed one.
Having a best friend and a boyfriend who you also consider your best friend is the way to go. I’m proof that this works. I have a best friend who I came into the relationship with, but I also think of my boyfriend as my best friend also.
How does this work? You may be asking. Well, it’s easy. Hang out together, make sure your best friend knows that they still have that title and it isn’t going anywhere. My boyfriend and best friend get along so well, they’ll actually game together when I’m not around. They’ve bonded and became really good friends themselves.
Don’t knock the fact that girls claim their boyfriend as their best friend, especially if you are the best friend. Of course, she’s going to hang out with her boyfriend without you, but don’t think you’ve lost that title and someone else has claimed it. Don’t shame her for being happy enough with her boyfriend to say he’s her best friend too. That doesn’t sound very friendly to me, does it?
