Friendship is one of the most important human relationships, as friends are the hope of life and they are the ones who make it easy for us many of the problems we face in our daily lives. It is normal for a girl or young man to have friendships of the opposite sex, but the position of the best friend or “best friend” remains limited. A friend of the same sex. However, this has changed in recent years, and the young man prefers to be a close friend of the opposite sex, and not a young man like him, for several reasons, according to Nada Al-Jamai, a marital and family relations consultant, and the most prominent of which are:

1- bragging

The relationship expert said that some young men may resort to these friendships in order to brag in front of their male friends and prove to them that he is admired and trusted by many girls, and that he is desired by girls.

2- love of control

Young people often want to control girls and impose control over them. Some young people may suffer from crises and problems in their family and social life, which make them psychologically shaken and have an “inferiority” complex, so they want to prove themselves and impose their control on someone, and this is what he cannot do with a young man like him. Therefore, it is preferable for him to take the girl as his friend instead of the young man.

3- Imitating others

We often see a young man who girls flock to and want to go out and sit with him, to find another young man whose heart is burning with jealousy from him, and he wishes he was in his place and gets all this admiration and attention from the girls, and here he begins to imitate him and seek after women’s alms rather than men and they call this friendship ” Best Friend”.

4- Confidence in girls

A young man may experience a crisis of confidence in men’s friends, due to his friend’s betrayal of him or the discovery of a lie or deception issued by him, so he resorts to taking a girl close to him whom he trusts in that girl rather than his other young friends.

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