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Your guy's slights likely stem from insecurity. "He probably doesn't have anything against your friends; he's just jealous of their superclose status in your life," explains Willard Harley, Jr., Ph.D., author of Love Busters: Overcoming Habits That Destroy Romantic Love. Maybe your guy wants you to spend some of that girl time with him or he thinks that while you're out with your ...

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