Why Buy the Cow When You Get the Milk for Free?

Some men come and go 

but for the precious few a clam should hold on.

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Most men in our lives float in and out for various reasons but then there are the men who have been around for some time. These are the male friends who have outlasted boyfriends, drunken confessions and their subsequent rejections, and those occasional lapses in our judgment. The amount of devotion shown by the boy-friends varies and a skilled woman has more than one. They could be the men who take us to dinner at a classy restaurant and then get to listen to us talk about the new guy we're dating (the boy-friend never thinks this new man is good enough). Maybe he is the one we go out to the bars with and has to see us dancing with other men while we drink the beer they bought for us. Or, they could simply be that guy who waits patiently for us to become single and points out the real boyfriend's faults along the way.

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Regardless of how he chooses to play his role as the boy-friend, a woman always knows what his true intentions are. She’ll deny it to her boyfriend and friends, insisting that they’ve been friends for such a long time and they're just very close. In a platonic way, of course!

A woman probably will not ever want to date the boy-friend because if she wanted to date such a spineless and emotional man she would have made a move already. She does, however, want to keep him around because he is such a great asset. The boy-friend provides an invaluable insight into the male psyche. He's a (more) honest bouncing board for ideas and is great for those late night conversations. He fills the boyfriend void should a woman need one, and that's why he's the boy-friend.

I want to point out that a women in these instances rarely makes promises to the boy-friend. He knows where he stands and he knows that another man can quickly and easily waltz in and take her away. So, before you condemn her (i.e. me) as a heartless animal keep in mind that he has his own inability to be assertive and make decisions. Blame him, not her.

So ladies, if you don't have a boy-friend I ask... what are you doing? Get out there and snag yourself a man. Men, if you are a boy-friend... I'm going to say keep doing what you're doing. We appreciate it :)