21 Things Girl-Boy Best Friends Just Get

"Yes, I can teach you how to iron."

1. Every potential S.O. must go through a screening process before either of you gets emotionally involved.

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And if your best friend doesn't like them, they're out.

2. It is an unspoken rule that if one of you needs the other, all plans are dropped immediately.

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In the pub drinking when your BFF calls? Tough shit, you're going to have to excuse yourself.

3. If one of you doesn't want to do something alone, the other is obligated to go along.

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"I'm meeting him for the first time since we broke up. Will you come?" "Sure, but I'm still mad at him so I'm going to grab his hand too hard when I shake it."

4. You've definitely had at least one conversation that started, "Tampons. Please explain."

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5. And you regularly discuss sex in unnecessarily graphic detail.

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6. You always call each other out on emotional bullshit.

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"I'm just going to reply telling her that she will probably die alone." "Please don't."

7. And you've definitely constructed texts on each other's behalves before.

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"So I want my vibe to be very available, but not desperate, but secretly a little bit desperate. Got it?"

8. You know that sometimes, the only solution to a problem is to eat an offensively large meal.

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Probably involving double-carb.

9. When everything goes tits up, you're always available to talk/cuddle/bitch.

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10. You've had countless conversations that start, "I know she's pretty, but she's more cute-pretty than hot-pretty, right?"

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And you've had this chat about basically every one of your mutual friends: male and female.

11. Nudity doesn't phase you anymore.

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You've seen each other naked 100 times. And none of those times was sexy.

12. And neither does vomit.

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After you were sick in his hoodie to avoid having to pay a fine for being sick in a taxi, it stopped mattering so much.

13. You've rehearsed potential conversations with your S.O.s with each other.

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Sometimes you even change your accents for authenticity.

14. You've accidentally spent so much time together than you've started speaking in the exact same way.

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"Do you ever wonder whether we're the only two people still saying 'snog'?"

15. And finding the exact same things funny.

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If one of you starts giggling, it takes the other about 0.00001 seconds to start crying hysterically too.

16. You've definitely wingmanned for each other before.

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And got cheesy chips on the way home together when it didn't work out because everyone thought you were together.

17. You can voice your dumbest thoughts to each other and not be scared of sounding stupid.

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"I just have this theory that all people get about 85% worse when they get Twitter. That's just what I think." "Yeah, you're probably right."

18. If you live far apart, you regularly Skype each other for so long that one/both of you falls asleep.

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And then wakes up to see your BFF's Skype picture staring back at you, which made you miss them even more.

19. Because you've been there for each other through every breakup, you've seen each other at your absolute worst.

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And you've said the cruelest things about each other's exes.

20. You've also said some pretty mean things to each other.

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And because you've had so many arguments, you know exactly how to wind each other up.

21. But you know that none of that really matters. You guys are friends for life <3.

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