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" I&amp;#039;ve talked a lot about how important it is to have a good group of girlfriends in your life. You can share clothes, they listen to your problems, they&amp;#039;ll watch Vampire Diaries with you\u2026With true girlfriends, drama should be limited to Team Damon or Team Stefan. There&amp;#039;s also another type of friend who is drama free, always there, and just as fun. I&amp;#039;m taking about the G.B.F., or Guy Best Friend. You know, a guy you have no pressure to hook up with or who can give you unbiased fashion advice. For me, his name is Jonathan. My G.B.F. gives me some of the best guy advice I&amp;#039;ve ever received. I have an all-access pass to the mind of the male species. If I am ever in need of &amp;quot;dude action clarification,&amp;quot; he can always fill me in. I love how easy everything is with Jonathan. There&amp;#039;s no pressure to look cute or initiate witty conversation to impress him. I think of Jonathan as the brother I never had, just like my best girlfriends are like my sisters. Your G.B.F is the guy who only wants the best for you, nothing more. I&amp;#039;ve heard people make the argument that men and women cannot simply be &amp;quot;platonic&amp;quot; and that there is always going to be attraction whether mutual, or one sided. That is so not the case with Jonathan and me. We both care for each other but it doesn&amp;#039;t go deeper than that. Actually, the idea of it makes me giggle. There is something mature about being able to have a respectful friendship with the opposite sex. Your G.B.F may even be more fun than your girlfriends. Last week Jonathan took me salsa dancing! It is electrifying being able to do girl/guy things with a guy who isn&amp;#039;t trying to make you his girl. We have our favorite quesadilla spot and bond over nerdy things like Game of Thrones, (We once had a six hour viewing marathon.) Jonathan is friends with my ex as well and has witnessed the ups and downs of our relationship. Yet he is always kind, always funny, and always there. I don&amp;#039;t know what I&amp;#039;d do without him! Do you have a G.B.F.? What do you love about him? Share in the comments! Brooklyn blogs about dating for Seventeen every Thursday. Read her last post here! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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