My Boyfriend Is Suspicious of My Relationship With My Male BFF. I Accidentally Made It Worse.

How to Do It July 24, 202612:00 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by fizkes/Getty Images Plus. Our advice columnists have heard it all over the years—so we’re diving into the How to Do It archives to share classic letters with our readers. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. (It’s anonymous!) Dear How to Do It, I’m a 29-year-old woman with a 29-year-old straight male best friend who lives in another state. “Billy” and I became friends back in undergrad nearly 12 years ago. We clicked and just got each other. We had a falling out a few years later, but reconnected three years ago. We can read each other and are brutally honest with each other. Billy can get a bit protective of me and needy, especially when he visits, since we don’t get to see each other but a handful of tim