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We are more like friends than lovers!
Your Wife Is Not Your Best Friend.I feel like my husband is more of a friend
Thinking She Is Can Kill Your Marriage.
Think your wife is your best friend? You’re wrong. It doesn’t mean your marriage isn’t wonderful — it’s just a recognition that friendship and marriage, while they share key areas of overlap, are fundamentally different relationships.
Experts warn that conflating the two can cause far more problems for your marriage than your friendships.
“In most cases our friends do not live with us, are not financially, legally, relationally entwined with us. Our friends are attached to us because they want to, when they want to,” says marriage and family therapist Carrie Krawiec of the Birmingham Maple Clinic.
My husband and i are just friends
“They have volition and empowerment to leave or at least take space from us when necessary. Our partners are connected to our homes, family, schedules, life.”
It makes sense that marriage and friendship might be conflated.
It’s well-documented that marriage is good for individual health, well-being, and longevity, and the same is true for friendship. Married people also tend to rely less on friendships than si
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