Glamour's Advice on How to Land a Man

In this article, Glamour advises taking a second look at your best guy friend, based on the movie When Harry Met Sally. I'm not saying it's the worst thing in the world to marry your friend, but if it took you years to discover a sexual attraction to someone of the (presumably) opposite sex, you're probably settling.  

Maybe they seem great in comparison to what you've just experienced, but wouldn't you have noticed that when you first met them? Most women know within the first 15 minutes if they're going to sleep with someone. Even a slow girl won't take years to cultivate a friendship only to discover there's a hidden sexual attraction. What's more, they probably know things about you that you'd ordinarily not tell your spouse. There are those that would say the person you marry should know everything about you, but who really believes that? You can't tell the love of your life that you've done charity work, when he knows that the charity involved is the night you got shitfaced and took home the computer geek with the awkward haircut that you, in your boozehound gaze, thought resembled Justin Timberlake. Clearly, that guy had the time of his life, and knows it, but you experienced the walk of shame on every level the next day.  

Your soon to be realized love probably also knows all of the other details about your past boyfriends, and can bring those details up in any given argument. Who wants to constantly relive the past in a current relationship? Isn't it better to have a new relationship that's actually new, and not one that you look at with the new attitude of "well, you're no worse than what I've been doing...."