Well everyone has had a lot of insightful warm and fuzzy replies but I think I will go with the jerk approach. This is quite a simple technique to help you in your situation all you need is another guy friend (one that is interested in your friend or at least attracted) to run interference on your guy friend. Basically you just need him to distract your girl friend by flirting, talking, and being socialable. Now a few things will happen with this approach #1. Your girl friend likes the new guy. #2. Your guy friend is intimidated (jealous) and backs off. #3. Your guy friend is the competitive type and speeds things up with your girl friend. Its more or less like slight of hand, why your friend is distracted with the new guy you can work on your guy friend and hope he gets the hint if all things work out nicely your girl friend will be interested in the new guy and will feel like your doing her a favor by cleaning up her mess with your friend. Good Luck
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