This troper is in a romantic ''three-girl'' friendship, with me as a blond-haired and shy ShrinkingViolet, one is TallDarkAndBishoujo, acting quite a bit like L, and the third being a FieryRedhead GenkiGirl. Despite how different we are, we are inevitabley reduced to much {{squee}}ing and cuddling when around each other, and have been asked many tomes if we were lesbian

This troper is a teacher at an all girls' high school in Japan, and sometimes sees ichinensei (age 15-16) in these kinds of relationships. However, even by that age it seems uncommon, and certainly doesn't continue into the second or third year of high school.

At This Australian Tropers school, it is quite common for best friends to say they are in lesbian relationships, even if one or both of the girls has a boyfriend. The boyfriend is expected to put up with them cuddling or flirting with each other to tease the boys. These relationships are vary rarely sexual outside an "I like your bra" or "let's go make out in the bathrooms" (which usually results in gossip). and are often used to confuse some of the more conservative teachers.

Oh God, it happens in this troper's Catholic(!) school as well. They always are being very huggy and they refer to each other as "lovers". I prefer to have no part in it.

IReadThatAs "pretend."

A similar thing happens at my school: the girls joke around about being engaged/married and "proposals" happen all the time.

At this french troper highschool it is more than common. A lot of girl have married or LesYay jokes even play kiss game or worse, sometimes to tease the boys but generally to fill in the lack of hot guys. It stop being funny when I realise I was attracted to girls.

Yes, yes, this happens in this troper's high school choir (which she ''has'' to stop mentioning in Troper Tales) all the time. Most of the girls aren't completely straight by their own admission, but I know that they still don't really ''mean'' anything when they refer to each other as their "lovers" or "wives". As a freshman who didn't know the ropes yet, it did confuse me a bit at first, but I later grew to accept and understand it, and I eventually found it uproarious. Even still, like one of the above posters, I wanted to part of it.

This isn't as uncommon in the USA as it seems. It's just not discussed as being a "relationship" due to the LesYay surrounding that idea. This troper has been involved in a few of these herself.

I think it really depends on how sexual/romantically involved these relationships really are. Certainly, this troper and her best friend hug each other fairly often, compliment each other's appearance, and are less self conscious around each other than they would be with others -- but, then again, this troper also has good male friends of whom these exact things are true, and there's ''definitely'' no romantic attraction there either. The question is whether this is due to the nature of friendship and the human need for physical contact, or whether it's to do with this phenomenon.

This troper was first bewildered by the prevalence of these relationships at our school, since the atmosphere of said school is so overwhelmingly conservative concerning physical contact. But as was mentioned above, the more conservative the atmosphere, the more you can get away with sometimes-- no one would even ''think'' of characterising these partnerships as sexual rather than friendly or romantic. Actual lesbian couples have a great degree of freedom... provided they do not actually identify their relationship as such in words. It's frustrating, compared to the total no-tolerance policy on even intense friendship between the sexes.

This troper has a friendship like this right now. My best friend and I are called lesbians despite the fact we both have boyfriends. We hug a lot, we cuddle when taking naps, and make the occasional LesYay joke about ourselves. Even we were baffled but figured it was a friend thing since there's no attraction between the two of us. It's really a matter of being comfortable not only with yourself but with other people, and how much trust you have in such a friend.

This must be really confusing for real lesbians.

Damn right it is. A lot of girls at my school do this sort of thing, especially the more popular ones.

Hence the insistence by a large percentage of the real-life gay and lesbian community that there are no bisexuals; and the frequent hostility toward both self-identified bisexuals and "trendy pretend-lesbian".

This troper has a relationship that I ''think'' falls under this. I'm her closest friend out of about four or five (She's painfully shy, and hates crowds), I'm the only one who's allowed to call her by a nickname, and she tells me things that she would never reveal to anyone else (and vice-versa). We're not physical with each other at all, but mostly that's because she has Asperger's Syndrome, and does not like physical contact. Otherwise, it's probably be a lot closer to an RTGF, because I'm a very "huggy" person. I also act very motherly towards her, because she's got a terrible home life. I usually think of it as asexual, but I guess it could be interpreted as an RTGF.

This male troper saw something like this going on during middle school. There were rumors floating around that two female friends were... more than friends. They frequently walked home together, seen frequently together, and one girl was rather masculine to boot. This culminated in someone "witnessing" them kissing. This being my school, they jumped down their throats, trading homophobic insults and calling them names. Next year, one of them moved to another school, never to be seen again. *sniff*

This troper's American all-girls school has tons of this trope- currently I have a wife of three years, an affair, an official fling, and more marriage proposals than I can count. On valentines day even I brought a rose for another girl who in turn brought me a box of chocolates. It's all platonic and all-in-good-fun however, and it never really goes beyond hand holding and cuddling. (Although there are legitimate lesbian relationships as well that do not adhere to these boundaries) Funny enough, as the girls get older this seems to be more common and one is more likely to see two senior girls holding hands as they walk through the halls than two freshman girls.

This year my drama team is putting on a sequel to ''ThePrincessBride'', in which the king and queen of Guilder make several appearances. Unfortunately there have been some problems with lack of male players, so (among others) I have been standing in for the king until the part was cast. The girl playing the queen is a friend of mine and very affectionate, so we play around with this trope in and out of character (I call her my "mail order bride" as part of the backstory we made up). Every time we see each other we have taken to screaming "I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU ALL DAY!" and hug. Since my boyfriend is playing the prince...well, let's just say he's not sure what to think of all this.

This troper is in something similar with his male best friend, since his friend just came out this troper is considering dropping this trope to not entirely destroy his chances of finding a girlfriend.

My best friend and I have a version of this. We're completely identical, which leads to a lot of dumb-assed comments from everyone else - "Oh my God, you're just like her!" - to which we have identical DeadpanSnarker responses. We're two years apart in age, but approximately three seconds apart in intelligence. I love her, but not in a LesYay kinda way, although not in a sister-ish way either. It works for us - she's scared of boys, and I'm gay, but have absolutely no romantic inclination towards her.

Are you sure she's not in the closet?

Yes.

This troper and her best friend seemed to form one of these without noticing it until about last year or so. It's a long-distance relationship, so we don't have the advantage of being all huggy unless you count *asterisk actions* , but we're incredibly close, have helped each other through difficult times and well...this troper doesn't think there isn't a secret that we haven't shared with each other.

And our feelings have only gotten stronger since then. I feel...complete.

My best friend and I are always mistaken for being lovers. It's probably because we live in an little village where there's absolutely no actual gay people, but really, I see how they're thinking. We're like sisters and none of us are lesbians, but we will kiss on the cheek, and when we watch movies, I'll often rest my head on her leg, and she will play with my hair. When people see us walking hand in hand, they'll often ask if we're together. For some reason, it's nearly always guys who ask questions like that.

"Absolutely no actual gay people"? lololololol. Of course there are! They're just in the closet, silly.

I and one of my best friends kind of act like this. It's more a extreme friendship then anything romantic. We cuddle, we hold hands, we do those kind of things. Meanwhile I'll be totally focused on the various boys in my life. (Friends, stalkers, what have you). To me it's kind of a stepping stone to her having real relationships and to annoy the boys at my school.

This troper, being gay, at times got frustrated with girls wanting to act out this trope with her at school. But at least she got to hold hands with some pretty girls that way--and sometimes even kiss too! Yay!

Score! At least you got something out of it. This gay troper has also been frustrated with girls acting out this trope.

Woah! You actually got to kiss them?! Lucky! This gay troper got into one of these with a friend I had a crush on in my freshman year. It's not like I was trying to! It was... kind of awkward, and I'm glad I no longer feel that way about her, so now we just have an ordinary friendship. ...Well, mostly. She's still a very touchy person with everyone, male or female, but our friendship doesn't really feel romantic anymore, which is good :P

This troper and her best friend have an RTGF, to the point where best friend will lay her head in this troper's lap, they hug A LOT, and declare that they love each other very often, despite best friend having a boyfriend.

This troper is in one with a close friend, it might even be escalating into something more.

d'awww :3 good luck!

First Troper here. It has now officially evolved into a full fledged relationship!

Congrats! that's so adorable!

Two of my friends from sixth form were practically in this, both in my tutor too which made things icky for me seeing as they sat next to me and flirted too.

As a troper who knows many, many girls that went to Catholic all-girl schools (in England) this does happen, at least more so than in your average mixed schools. They're still underage though, gentlemen, so don't think about it.

As a former Catholic schoolgirl (although my school was coed and American) I can attest that I was always much closer to my girlfriends than to any guy. There's a trust that builds up as you spend so much time together and feel so comfortable with each other. When my best friend and I had no one to go to dances with or whatever, we would always half jokingly bring each other as a "date." We're a lot more comfortable with hugging, pet names, cuddling, kissing on the cheek, etc. Personally, I just think girls form more intimate, intense friendships earlier on than boys do.

Me and my best friend are often mistaken for being lovers. Actually, I think I've got LesYay with pretty much all of my female friends, but Ashleigh is a special case. We're very touchy-feely - rarely just talking without having some kind of physical contact - we kiss on the cheek(and a couple of times, after long separations, we have pecked each chastely on the lips), call each other "darling", "love" and "sweetie", I always glomp her when I see her, we usually cuddle on the couch when watching movies... when we're not being LesYay-ish, though, we're usually bickering or just being in a particular Tsundere-mood. (She's a LovableLibby, I'm a geeky, tomboyish Tsundere).

Several girls in my school joke about being "married". One of my friends even set her facebook relationship status as "married" to one of her friends. (Incidentally, her facebook page also says "Interested in: Men"...) As an actual lesbian, I find this both frustrating and amusing at the same time.

This troper and her two friends take it in turns to form these. It's like a closed little love triangle.

This troper has a tendency to gather these, being a cuddly heterosexual biromantic. Platonic lady-romance is just lovely.

This bisexual, closeted troper is milking this trope for all it's worth. Her possible love-of-her-life is a bisexual girl who's been dating the same guy for a year. Suffice to say, this troper will feel awful when (if . . . 0_0) her friend and her boyfriend break up because she will not feel too horrible automatically. Current, this troper and her crush spend almost all their time together, hug constantly, kiss each other everywhere but the lips, and are one step away from being in a real relationship. (Switching to first person). It's gotten so bad that the crush has admitted that I would be perfect for her if I wasn't . . . straight. Hehheh. In the mean time, I'm vamping up the Les Yay for all it's worth. We've been mistaken for a lesbian couple many times, to the point where half the school thinks we genuinely are.

I think you'll regret this in the long run.

Indeed... be careful. You might hurt yourself.

Well damn. Just come out to her, and maybe you'll both end up happy in the end?

This bisexual troper and her asexual best friends SO HARD. We're constantly saying 'I love you', cuddling, holding hands... We've had several teary CMoH 'I love you you're my best friend ever' moments. When we visit eachother, we have a tendency to fall asleep on the same bed, even if it is her tiny cramped single bed. We cuddle, kiss eachother on the cheek. Whenever we spend more than three days apart we get especially clingy. ..... Yeeaaaaah we've got it bad.

An ironic element is that we are both YaoiFangirls. Part of our nightly IM routine is wishing eachother 'Sweet Boykissy Dreams'.

The other ironic element? Everybody at our school seems to think we're sisters. (This is not unfounded - we have a Psychic Mind Link. It's been there since we've met. It is spooky.

This tropette has two (straight) friends who act EXTREMELY lesbian towards each other, up to and including playing the pocky game (well, they broke off the pocky before they could kiss, but still) and doing a UsagixMisagi imitaion COMPLETE with boob-groping. The hilarious thing is, we're all {{Yaoi Fangirls}} and wish each other happy yaoi-filled days.

This troper has this with with two of her friends, one of whom is probably asexual and the other is ambiguously bisexual. We hug, hold hands, kiss on the cheek, the whole deal. Also, this troper has been mistaken for one of those friend's boyfriend.

This troper's relationship started out as this.

This troper and This troper for the rest of our lives.

This pansexual troper was in one of these, which she personally ended up seeing as an actual relationship as opposed to a friendship, which wasn't helped by the fact her friend would joke about nothing changing between us if we did begin a relationship. I'm going to refer to myself in the first-person now. We spent a lot of time together, cuddled, slept in the same bed a couple of times (nothing sexual went down), but the friendship was more intense than I had ever experienced. However, I had a PrecociousCrush on one of our mutual male friends, which both he and she were aware of. One thing led to another, and she ended up dating him. This troper was not happy about it, and she and I got into a fight. Our male friend was very uncomfortable about the relationship as well because he figured out I considered her more than a friend. I told him that I was okay with it because I honestly wanted to see both of them happy. He broke up with her later that day. She was convinced that I was the main reason behind the breakup. We haven't spoken since. He fell out of contact with me later on as well. :( That said, most of my longtime female friendships fall into this trope nicely.