The Real Girlfriends Checklist

The nice thing about girlfriends is that you besides those who have been with you for years and years, you can also add new girlfriends to your list. And if you can check off these points, they deserve the title of heart friend/bestie or BFF.

1.

She has lied for you before.

2.

You have held each other's hair up while she emptied her drink overdose in the toilet. Or you pressed the ladies' loo blower hard for a quarter of an hour so that no one heard her getting rid of her alcohol excess.

3.

You have a knack for always picking up the phone when something is really wrong. Usually, you let her leave a message, but you feel it when there is Big Trouble and you need to jump in.

4.

You come up with excuses to free her from uncomfortable situations or to save her from pushy or incredibly boring and long-winded ladies or gentlemen.

5.

You can calmly say ‘This outfit won't get you anywhere’ to her.

6.

You have built up a repertoire of ‘remember when?’ situations. Like that time she just rang the doorbell at the woman who turned out to be with her then-boyfriend, or that time your lover dropped you hyperventilating at your best friend’s because you were upset after finding out he/she was seeing some soap star, and your friend was just raising the flag at that moment. Those kinds of things.

7.

You have cried together. At the same time.

8.

You have peed together. And talked in between. You also share when you need to poop and discuss the amount, substance, and ease of the delivery and the relief and, more importantly, you have sat in each other's poop smell.

9.

You can say nothing to each other and still be very satisfied.

10.

She can say that you can't cook without you minding. Because it's true. In some cases, she even comes to feed you.

11.

She biked to you in the middle of the night because you were sad.

12.

You can talk in half sentences that are really incomprehensible to an outsider, but totally clear to you. And for half an hour.

13.

You have your own phone codes like; always answer at unconventional calling times, at 1 ring ‘I want to talk to you but can also tomorrow’, at 2 rings 'I want to tell you something, call me back', at 3 rings big SOS Call Me Now.

14.

Her new lover only became officially her new lover after you had seen and approved him/her.

15.

She knew earlier that you were pregnant than your own lover.