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"I have always been a girls girl. I put my girlfriends before any guy and this is the rule that I live by. I have always had amazing friends so choosing my friends over the dumb boys I liked was always an easy choice to make.  This year, however, I got in my first big relationship and I started spending more and more time with my boyfriend and less and less time with my girlfriends. I was so caught up in my relationship with my boyfriend that I didn&amp;#039;t even notice how much I was drifting away from my friends. I was really busy with track and schoolwork so I hardly had any free time, but I spent all the free time that I did have with my boyfriend. I quickly realized how much I missed my girlfriends, especially my best friend. We no longer had our late night talks where we would laugh and gossip forever, we never went to sushi on Sunday nights or took study breaks to watch Gossip Girl. We were no longer the first one that the other called when they were upset or having a bad day.  Once I realized how much I missed her, she had already started to give up on me. I tried to make an effort to spend more time with her but she was just frustrated that it had taken me so long and ignored my efforts to make our friendship the way it used to be.  It took time and a lot of fighting, a lot of crying and a lot of laughing, but we finally got back to our days of giggling all night long and stealing each others clothes and always, no matter what, being there for each other above any boy. Have you ever had trouble balancing your boyfriend with your best buds? How do you stay close with your girlfriends when you have a boyfriend? XOXO Lindsey Schickner Web Intern "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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