To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
It's important for couples to be friends first and to respect each other as individuals.
I think all married couples tend to run things by each other in every capacity and we're not different to them.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.