10 tips for boys

1. Don't be a liar.

2. If someone tells you they're in love with you and you don't feel the same way but want to remain friends, respect those feelings (e.g., don't put them in awkward situations -- e.g. don't invite them to an event wherein there will be people you are currently sleeping with).

3. If someone tells you they're in love with you and you don't feel the same way, don't sleep in their bed with your arms around them. It sends the wrong signals.

4. If you fall asleep with your arms around someone who loves you even though you don't love them back, and they manage to look past it and politely ask you not to initiate anymore physical contact of the sexual variety unless you reciprocate their feelings, don't proceed to make out with them and then fall asleep holding their hand. That's what we call Fucked Up.

5. If you've done all of the above and the person who loves you that you do not love back is still around, you should feel lucky for having found someone with a such a heart. As far as chicks go, occasionally their crazy unconditional love is not some stereotypical female response generated by Hollywood's countless happy endings. Occasionally it comes from a place that is so true it cannot be challenged.

That doesn't mean it doesn't hurt.

6. If you've done all of the above and the person who loves you that you do not love back is still around? Get it together, man. They are probably dying inside. Buy or borrow a pair of testicles and have the decency to talk to them. Explain that you've been a doucher and made a mistake-- if that's the case. Apologize. Answer their questions. Let them cry. Let them be angry with you. Let them get over it. Let them come back and give you another chance to be the friend you want to be; the friend they deserve.

7. Actually be that friend.

8. Don't be a liar.

9. Don't be a liar.

10. Stop fucking lying.