Affection, having someone support you in your goals, to share good and bad times, these are the most important things in a relationship for me. Luckily I can have that with friends, and thus I generally feel little need for a girlfriend. Also, one can more easily have several friends, and they're more apt to be in your life a year or two from now than a girlfriend.
The main advantages to having a girlfriend are that having one makes other women more interested/comfortable with you (not always a good thing if your girl doesn't like to share), and the girl will generally give more of herself to you in every way, spending more time and energy on/with you than most any opposite gender friend usually would.
The latter, the deeper sharing, is the one thing that makes me occasionally consider giving dating another chance.
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