Why Crushes Can Be
Better Than Boyfriends
1. Crushes basically
require you to geek out with your friends.
Once you’re actually dating someone, you can’t keep
calling him the Sixth-Period Lord of Hotness, because
that’s just bragging. You also can’t giggle for nine
hours while having practice crush conversations with your friends
(please tell me I'm not the only one who did
that), because relationships require talking for real.
2. Your free time is yours, all yours!
The right kind of boyfriend both needs and wants the two of
you to have separate interests and lives. But he'll
probably still want to know what you're doing, and you
probably don't want to explain out loud that no, you
can't go out Friday night, because you're too busy making
all your T-shirts into ninja masks.
(http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2869/1850/1600/ninjalesson.jpg)
3. It’s never as good as you think it’s gonna
be.
In general this is a terrible reason to not do something, but
it’s a little bit different when it comes to crushes.
Sometimes it’s more fun to imagine magical pony rides
through the Carribean with a crush than it is to make
stilted conversation with them under the cold, hard light of your
local Denny's.
4. You can focus on your
friendships.
We’ve all had that friend who pulls a disappearing act the
minute she starts dating someone, only to reappear months later,
newly broken up and expecting full-on friend therapy. Though
friend breakups definitely occur, and high-school sweethearts do
occasionally get married, your friends are still likely to stick
around a lot longer than the person you just started calling
Sugarpants. (You should stop doing that btw.)
5. If you’re in a relationship, you no longer get
to crush on eeeeveryone.
Have a little respect. Getting a real boyfriend means
retiring your “Mrs. Niall Horan” T-shirt (for a
little while), putting your shirtless Justin
Bieber gif from Tumblr on temporary hold, and no
longer cultivating the five to ten mini-crushes you’ve got
going for a rainy day.
♥
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