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.
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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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