As a Female- II

# 2 A Girlfriend Only

Friends: We all need friends to survive this life's atrocities. A friend is always needed to share both the happy and sad moments with. A friend is needed to teach us giving, forgiveness, respect, patience and other good things we thought we never had in the first place! But sometimes, friends are a bit overrated. If you are a girl and in a relationship with a guy who has many or some close friends, you are going to understand what I am about to say here.

Sometimes your family members can be your best friends that you don't feel like you need any close friends or at least you don't feel like you have to have many friends. And we definitely don't need so many fiends to live a happy life. Whether it is your family, a complete stranger or anyone who is your friend, we, girls, when in love with a guy, want one thing more than any other thing in this world which is to be best friends with the guy we love. Therefore, when we are in love with some guy, we put them on our priority list and we always treat them better than our best friends because we think "c'mon! he is both my love and my best friend!" But have you ever noticed how different guys can be when it comes to this? how they change into a different person when they are around their friends. They are more cheerful, they take things less seriously, they are more relaxed, they complain about nothing, they have more jokes and they are so crazy and funny. For example, if their friend messes up and takes a wrong turn while driving, it's something to joke and laugh about while if you do that, it's the end of the world. Don't you hate how if a friend of his upsets you, he always defends the friend, finds him excuses and asks you to take it easy while if you are the one who directly or indirectly did something bad to their friend, they are ready to point it out immediately and reproach you as if you have touched something very sacred to them! It's just so frustrating when you think of it! You are in a real dilemma. You can't compete with the friend and try to replace them because you are a girl and you can't be everything they are. You are a different person. But you can't live harmoniously with the friend in your life because it's so painful and offending when you know how you are categorized as a "girlfriend only" while the friend is a best friend. Even when he says that you are his best friend, you know it can't be true because you can't be a best friend when he shares with the best friend all he never shares with you and when he treats his best friend more kindly and with more forgiveness and patience than he treats you. Yes, how frustrating it is when your love opens his arms to your love while he turns his back to your friendship! How sad it is when you know you can never be close enough to be best friends. What an ugly place to be: girlfriend only….