Category:Heterosexual Life Partners: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}JQdmHZD1ugI It's Guy Love]

''That's all it is,

''Guy Love,

''He's mine, I'm his,

''There's nothing gay about it

''In our eyes...

''It's Guy Love, between two guys!''|'''J.D.''' and '''Turk''', ''[[Scrubs]]''}}

Two extremely close friends or partners, of the same gender, who are as close or closer than a romantic couple. They aren't romantically linked, but they might suffer withdrawals from not being around each other. There might even be a "break-up" episode. When one gets a boy/girl friend, you can almost certainly expect the [[Friend Versus Lover]] quarrel to be epic. Note that despite the trope name, the characters in question are [[Incompatible Orientation|not necessarily both heterosexual]].

Sometimes this is an extreme form of an [[Odd Couple]], in that the two are different as night and day. [[Those Two Guys]] may also acquire this label, as may the title characters of ''any'' show with a title of the form ''X and Y''. Don't expect them to be friendly to each other though, quite a few are [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]. In adventure stories, they are often [[Blood Brothers]].

Works often lampshade, mock or play with the relationship by throwing in some [[Homoerotic Subtext]], but that's by no means necessary. For fans' delight at such scenes or [[Ship Tease|ship teases]], see [[Ho Yay]].

'''[[No Real Life Examples, Please]]'''. This is not a gossip column.

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[[Category:This Index Is Not My Girlfriend]]

[[Category:Duo Tropes]]

[[Category:Older Than Dirt]]

[[Category:Friendship Tropes]]

[[Category:Truth in Television]]

[[Category:Heterosexual Life Partners]]

[[Category:No Real Life Examples, Please]]

{{related|Platonic Life Partners}}

{{related|Like Brother and Sister}}

{{related|True Companions}}

{{related|Chastity Couple}}