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This idea that we should be best friends with our partner of the opposite gender leads toward tremendous frustration. Did you ever notice that while men often refer to their wives as best friends, women usually refer to another woman in that way?

I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - my male friends in particular. And I started wondering if my wife, who was certainly my best friend, supplanted those relationships.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Women have always been my best friends.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.