Marriage and Friendship

I was thinking about Marriage and Friendship today, and realized my dear and darling husband is my BESTEST FRIEND in the whole wide world. Not just a friendship built over the 14 years we have spent together, but a friendship from the very beginning.

Of course I have my girlfriends...but those friendships are built different. I think friendship is one of the links that holds a good marriage together.

If you start to lose the friendship in your marriage, then eventually the trust and communication go as well....then what is left? Nothing but a piece of paper saying you are married and maybe the fact that you happen to be the parents of the same children.

If you stop being a friend to someone you have called a friend...what happens? You grow apart...you don't call....you stop talking....the friendship ends because you neglected the friendship you had. You can blame the other person, but when it comes down to it...did you do all you could do to stay this persons friend? Did you honor them, trust them and listen to them, and value them? Regardless of whether they did what they could as a friend....did you do your part?

So, I say to you...if you think that your marriage may not being working for you because you married your "friend"...that is not the answer...the truth be told....you stopped being friends and that is where things started to go wrong.

Marriage and Friendship go hand in hand...you can't have a great marriage without friendship with your spouse....if you were married to a person you couldn't call your friend...you are left either married to a stranger or an enemy. Am I making sense?

Are you being a great friend to your spouse? Are you being a great friend to your friends? Something to think about.

Thanks for reading my thoughts on friendship and marriage.