11 Reasons Why Your Girlfriend Shouldn't Be Your Only Friend

We’re telling you this because it’s something everyone who wants to be happy should know: don’t allow your girlfriend to become your only friend. We get that always spending time together can make remembering to spend time with other people difficult, but you need to really cut that shit out.

Balancing how much time you spend with your friends and your girlfriend is a life lesson that is delicate, but necessary. When you fuck this up, and your friends become something you can actually refer to in air quotes, you’re in deep shit. Here are a few reasons why you should probably start texting your old crew, and try to repair whatever semblance of a friendship is left.

1. Who will come to your birthday party, if you stop talking to everyone except for your girlfriend and your mom?

Because nobody cares about you.

2. Going out for a night on the town will mean taking yourself out to dinner/drinks/movies alone.

Your "going out clothes" are out of style at this point.

3. And opening up your text messages will be a bummer, since the only people who are ever at the top are your feed are your girlfriend and your mom.

4. You’ll have nobody to talk out your relationship problems with.

5. Or a couch to crash on when you need a place to stay.

6. Say goodbye to having a person you can take shopping who will be honest with you while standing under those shitty dressing room lights.

Nothing ever looks good, but your girlfriend thinks everything looks good. Just start buying/returning online.

7. Where are you going to get a bunch of varied advice about your new haircut idea?

Serious decisions we're talking about.

8. And you’ll maybe make other troubling beauty decisions that a friend would have had the opportunity to talk you out of.

You really shouldn’t have tried to lighten your eyebrows.

9. You’ll sometimes have to fangirl all alone at shows that your girlfriend isn’t really into.

But really, who the fuck isn’t obsessed with Jenny Lewis?

10. You’ll never have the chance to miss your girlfriend, which is the fastest way to take the spark out of a relationship.

Even if it’s just for a night, spending time away from your girl is a great way to keep your relationship feeling fresh.

11. Being each other’s only friend is the fastest road to codependence.

And this is the biggest takeaway here. Codependence is a major issue that you really want to nip in the bud. If you’re living with your girlfriend, it can be difficult not to become codependent, but having friends and spending time apart is healthy and crucial in order to have a loving relationship.