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How to Deal When Your Best Friend Gets a Significant Other

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Finding out your best friend officially partnered up with full-time makeout partner always feels like a liiiittle bit of a bummer. I’m here to tell you that it DOESN’T HAVE TO BE. Click the right arrow >>> to absorb  some  advice I’ve acquired over the years  about how to be a good friend when your BFF is all caught up in the throes of young love/won’t stop smooching next to your locker. (And for more information, please see our  guide to third wheeling without barfing all over the place.)