The very first rule in the book, it is also the most important, and, strangely enough, the most often broken.

Don’t let the name fool you, it is simply called “Bros Before Hoes” because it rhymes and rhyming sounds better than non-rhyming names.

Rule 1 refers, in it’s simplest form, to the fact that your friends should come first before your girlfriend. Because honestly, chances are that you have known your best friends for a lot longer than you have been going out with your girlfriend, and if you are dropping them to go out with your girlfriend, you are breaking Rule 1.

On a deeper level, Rule 1 means that your girlfriend is NOT always right, you don’t always HAVE to take her side and despite what you may think and she may tell you, you CAN make time to see your friends without “neglecting” her.

In summary, Rule 1 means: don’t neglect your friends once you get a girlfriend. And if you do, don’t just return to your friends after you and your girlfriend have broken up and expect everything to be as normal again. Also, if you are spending all your time with your girlfriend and neglecting your friends, don’t try and pass the blame onto them by saying “Oh my friends are drifting away from me because of my relationship”, because most of the time that’s just not right.  From my experience, your friends are probably “drifting away” from you because you are neglecting them.

Most people will totally understand if you are going to see them less than usual when you get a girlfriend – It’s to be expected. But if you totally STOP seeing your friends and spend all your time with your girlfriend, there is a problem.