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10 Perks of Dating Your Best Friend

You've got the best of both worlds.

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10 Perks of Dating Your Best Friend
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People always hope they will date their best friend. Blame it on romantic movies, or that sweet old couple who lives in your neighborhood who are constantly making fart jokes together. Whatever reason, it is a goal for pretty much everyone, and for good reason. While the reasons that your significant other should also be your best friend are endless, here are my top ten reasons why it is the best thing ever:

You can tell each other everything.

I may promise I won't tell anyone, but I'll tell my significant other. They don't count as anyone. We will keep each other in the loop because if we don't there wouldn't be as many jokes to say, and we wouldn't want that. #judgingsohard


You can always get advice on whatever.

Too afraid to bring something up to anybody? Doesn't matter, your significant other has seen you when you were dying on the floor, looking like a mess when you had a cold. They clearly won't judge you, and will at least give it their best shot.


So many inside jokes.

It's impossible not to have a book's worth of inside jokes when you spend every waking minute talking. You basically have a secret language, but in a way more dumb kind of way.


Its fun to plan the future.

Everybody always has big plans that they make with their friends. You'll have a big house, four kids, and two dalmatians. Your kids will play volleyball together and you'll take family vacations to Disney World. But it is always more fun when you are planning all of that with the person you will actually be having all of that cool and fun stuff with.


You have some pretty crazy experiences.


You have some pretty cringe worthy and stupid situations that you are ready to tell at any dinner party. Because who doesn't love a good story involving vegetable glycerin, crappy customer service, and Joe Jonas?


They just get you.


They know every habit, thought process, and quirk you have. They know what you are going to say before you even say it. It is the best thing in the world to know that you are important enough to one person for them to have memorized you. Plus they know when to calm you down or when to just hit the deck whenever somebody brings up that topic around you. There is no way to hide that you're crazy, but its another reason why they love you.


You're a package deal.

You love going to the same places, have the same friends, and do a lot of the same things. You never have to worry about having none of your friends not show up to plans you made and leaving you alone, because you have a built in buddy already.


You have two different sides.

The sit on the couch in your pjs and watch tv side, and your "oh my gosh please don't say that we're in public, you know we can't say stuff like that when there are normal people around" side. But you both always seem to forget to use the "normal people" side.


You don't have to worry about impressing them.

Sure you'll sometimes dress up for them, or playfully flirt, but for the most part, they already know how ridiculous and weird you are. And chances are, they are right there dancing terribly next to you in the grocery store aisles.


But most importantly, they complete you.

No one argues that you are meant to be together, because it's just an unspoken (well, sometimes unspoken) rule.

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