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I would like to dedicate this page to Kenval Alvin Thomas Junior. A boyfriend is someone you can connect with. Someone who you like to talk to and who won't judge you. A boyfriend is a person who is there for you and likes you for who you are. I had a boyfriend. A true boyfriend who liked me and didn't expect me to change. A boyfriend is just what the word says. It is a boy friend. My boyfriend was one of a kind. ~Love Kre~

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+I would like to dedicate this page to Kenval Alvin Thomas Junior.
-{{dablink|"Boyfriend" is also the name of an Ashlee Simpson song; see [[Boyfriend (song)]].}}
+A boyfriend is someone you can connect with. Someone who you like to talk to and who won't judge you. A boyfriend is a person who is there for you and likes you for who you are. I had a boyfriend. A true boyfriend who liked me and didn't expect me to change. A boyfriend is just what the word says. It is a boy friend. My boyfriend was one of a kind.
+~Love Kre~
-A '''boyfriend''' is a [[male]] partner in a non-[[marriage|marital]] [[romantic relationship]] with either a woman or a man.
-In contrast to its female equivalent, ''[[girlfriend]]'', which is often used to describe a woman's close female friends, the term is rarely used in reference to non-romantic relationships. It is a relatively modern term, and in the past has had implications of an illicit relationship (as sexual and romantic relationships outside marriage were generally frowned upon). It is now a generally accepted term, however, no longer having negative connotations. The term is more likely to be used to describe a boy or a young man in a relationship, as an older man in a non-marital relationship is often described as a ''[[significant other]]'' or ''[[partner]]''. Even amongst younger people, ''boyfriend'' may be replaced with the [[gender-neutral language|gender-neutral]] term ''partner'', especially when describing a young man in a long term relationship.
-The word itself is relatively new -- its first usage in print known to the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' is in George W. E. Russell's ''Collections and recollections, by one who has kept a diary'', in [[1909]].{{ref|Russell330}}
-In [[Japan]], where many English words have entered the common [[vernacular]] (especially among teenagers), a "boyfriend" (ボイフレンッド) is a term which does not have any romantic connotations.  Rather, it is any male friend, whether the speaker is male or female.  For example, one Japanese boy calling another boy his "boyfriend" implies no sense of homosexuality or even romantic involvement.  The proper way to refer to one's male romantic partner is ''kareshi'' (かれし).  The same situation applies to the word "girlfriend" (ガアルフレンッド).
-==Notes==
-#{{Note|Russell330}} George W. E. Russell. ''Collections and recollections, by one who has kept a diary'' p.330 "The young ladies...meet their boy-friends at all hours and places." The ''OED'' contradicts itself, saying in another place that the diary was published in [[1898]].
-==See also==
-{{wiktionary}}
-*[[Significant other]]
-[[Category:Intimate relationships]]