Loving My Very Best Friend

I used to hear that if you got into a relationship with your best friend (of the opposite sex of course) that you would ruin the relationship. However, after being married for a good amount of years, I can truly say that if you want a successful relationship your mate had better be your best friend! If not you may not make it. In fact it would behoove us to incorporate some of the exceptional qualities of a best friend relationship into our romantic ones. Let's look at some of the special things about best friends:

• They accept one another's faults and remain friends
• There's a feeling of trust, confidence and family between them
• When they have disagreements they find a way to get past them and remain close
• They don't get offended easily because, in their minds, their friend has no ill will towards them

Isn't it interesting that we sometimes treat our best friends better than our mates? How is it that we can forgive our best friend and not our mate or accept the mistakes of our best friend and not our mate? If we were to make the love of our life our best friend, then we very well might find ourselves:

• falling in love over and over again
• in a relationship where there is much more security
• receiving the acceptance and room to grow that you've always been looking for
• experiencing a relationship that is not only enjoyable, but totally fulfilling

By the way, those wonderful feelings of euphoria you get at the beginning of the relationship tend to wane after a while, but if you are best friends they come back over and over again. Being best friends is what keeps  you together between those times when the passion has somewhat slowed down.  I don't know about you, but I'm going to continue loving my very best friend. In fact, I've got some more loving to do right now.