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"    In her debut advice column, MC&amp;#039;s love guru Daisy answers your questions about a boyfriend with too many female pals.  Dear Daisy,  My boyfriend has a lot of close female friends he&amp;#039;s known for years. Even though I have a ton of male friends who are like brothers to me, the fact that he has long phone conversations and one-on-one hangouts with so many women \u2014 all fabulous and single \u2014 makes me nervous. I can&amp;#039;t seem to shake my worries that he might be interested in one of them. I don&amp;#039;t want to seem insecure and I don&amp;#039;t want to make demands. What are reasonable boundaries? \u2014Phoebe, 32, Detroit  Dear Phoebe,  Men are simple creatures, mostly. I had a boyfriend once who often used to wear an old Clash T-shirt that had originally belonged to his ex-girlfriend. It tormented me for months. Was it some kind of signal that he still loved her? Finally I asked him why he was wearing it. &amp;quot;It was clean,&amp;quot; he replied. Oh. I repeat: Men are simple animals. They rarely have ulterior motives and often need to be told things. He probably has no idea that his behavior bothers you. So tell him. I&amp;#039;ll wager he&amp;#039;ll be surprised. The two of you can set boundaries together. I&amp;#039;d say phone conversations with other women are OK; one-on-one hangouts only every once in a while. But you get to decide, and you get to change the parameters if you&amp;#039;re still uncomfortable. Best-case scenario, of course, he complies and you comply, and your relationship matures into a stable, loving blah blah blah. But even then, be alive to your own feelings. Is your worry a clue? Is there a reason you don&amp;#039;t trust him? Is he failing to make you feel like you&amp;#039;re the grooviest thing that ever came down the pike? Because that&amp;#039;s how he should be making you feel: like the specialest piece of special in specialtown. If he&amp;#039;s not doing that, you might want to think about setting a new boundary \u2014 one that leaves him out. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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