Friendships are some of the most basic relationships we have in our lives. We start developing friendships when we are very young. We usually pick friends that we have things in common with, or have some of the same personality traits with. As we get older our friendships start to mean a little more. We start confiding in our friends and we learn what it means to trust and have loyalty to one another. Fast forward to my age, married for 26 years and mother of 5 kids, and my friendships are some of my most important relationships. I consider my friends to be my family that I picked out.
So wouldn’t it make sense that we marry our best friend? Our spouse should be a friend that we want to journey through life with, to create a family with and to spend eternity with. One of the most important things that keeps a married couple together through good and bad times is friendship. Friendship is like the glue that will keep a couple together.
Gottmon said, “When a couple have a strong friendship, they naturally become experts at sending each other repair attempts and at correctly reading those sent their way… The success or failure of a couple’s repair attempts is one of the primary factors in whether their marriage is likely to flourish or flounder. And again, what determines the success of their repair attempts is the strength of their marital friendship.”
As a married couple it is so important to make sure we are always working on our friendship, that way in times of a crisis we will be strong and it will help our marriages be successful.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and for happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.’
-Franz Schubert
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