What is more important to you: a friendship or a partner?

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For me it has always been friendship. I also want my future man to be my bestie first. Even now I would love to have a real bestie a healthy friendship please haha

mickmrly · Accepted Answer

I think a partner is more important, but I also think they are really your best friend anyway. Friends are great people to hang out with, but partners are people you trust to be alone with and make a life together with. Partners should always be your best friend, the person you have the most fun with over the course of your lives.

Wish4UrB00ty · Accepted Answer

I dont know that I need my girl to be my boyfriend but for sure high up on the list. Like I shouldn’t have another girl I enjoy spending time with as much as her even but for sure not more.

NZGirl07 · Accepted Answer

Definitely my partner. My friendships have always come and gone. I only have 1 best friend I'd do anything for, but I'd still have to put my partner first if he needed me. To me my partner is my best friend, and my priority. Our relationship feels solid because we know we each come first.

watercolor_lions · Accepted Answer

What is a "partner" without a friendship?

My husband is both. If I HAD to choose, I'd accept a platonic friendship with him over a "relationship" with someone I had less chemistry with. Because he's more important than the title.

CrazyGirl2 · Answer

Right now at my age, it’s my friends. I guess when I’m at a point where I want a serious relationship I would want a partner who was also my best friend! I see what amazing friends my parents are, and that they are also complete dedicated partners in life, and they are still like newlyweds! That is exactly what I want for myself in a husband.

LovingLoverReturned · Answer

Balance is key but partners take priority if we live with them.

For example, Help the person in front of you.

Partners can be many things: The parent of our children, our friend, our romantic lover and have to put up with our own imperfections almost 24/7... breaks away from partners yners are healthy and necessary for health but

TroyDT2 · Answer

The friendship and romance should advance at the same time. If it is a friendship first, it will never become a romance for me. My best friend and three of my four closest are all female. Fating any of them would be almost incestuous in my mind.

Anonymous · Answer

Don't really like the either or with this question.
If your husband is second to your friend, things might not go well. Also, if you load your husband with the pressure of being your best friend, also may be a problem.
But if you're lucky, you get both through your husband and everyone is happy.

NathanDavis · Answer

my best and close friends would kick my ass... if I didn't make my partner the most important person in my life that's the kind of friends I have... lol

letuswaltzforthedead · Answer

Depends on where I am with life. I dont have a partner right now so I wouldn't mind friends but if I had a partner, I wouldn't choose my friends over my love.

SomeGuyCalledTom · Answer

The two are incomparable. I wouldn't be the man I am without my friends, but I'm definitely happiest when I have the love of a good woman. Apples to oranges.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

I would not date or marry a guy unless I viewed him as a high quality friend. Just like you would not eat black pepper without something to put the pepper on.

clampfan101 · Answer

I’m glad to see many people saying that friendship is essential for a partner, because it’s 100% true.

Bethany22 · Answer

A female friend is more valuable. Women tend to live longer on average, so the investment pays off.

Chris_u006 · Answer

Friendship! If your partner doesn't become your best friend you are doing it wrong. Friends who always will stay friends should never be tampered with the wrong way and what you feel most be mutual.

Woodchuck411 · Answer

Definitely my partner it's all the one package

YaGirlKatie · Answer

Agreed!! Hopefully 2 birds with one stone and relationship where they are my best friend

TheSpaceGnome · Answer

A wife would be my besty, for the same reason you mentioned, but having a partner is more important to me because of that. Because a partner is a besty plus commitment plus sex.

Twalli · Answer

I need to be friends with someone before I date them. So it's kind of necessaru to have the former to have the latter. Nobody is hot enough to make me want to be with them uf we don't have similar interests

FunnyGiy · Answer

I don’t know. I value both very much. I would love to marry my best friend. That’s the only way to go. I agree

Summeroflove · Answer

I’m like you. I think both are very important

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

I agree with you that Best Friends should just be that, and someday become partners.

WhitneySnow · Answer

Friendship is more important but my boyfriend is important to me too

Katebfun · Answer

a partner because they usually become your best friend. Friends cone in go.

Tina19 · Answer

Friendship of course because they don't try to dominate or control your life

TacosRAwesome · Answer

I want my partner to be my bestie but I also want some besties outside of my partner.

Anonymous · Answer

if you're lucky, your partner will also be your friend

AsaKyo · Answer

Friends don't really mean shit to me anymore, so I guess the latter

Rangers · Answer

My girlfriend is the only person in the world that I care about

PainusNdeeAnus · Answer

This is complicated because my friendships with women always turns into something more that’s why I no longer befriend women

Shy_Steve · Answer

A Friendship is okay, But I would much rather a Partner.

Nominal · Answer

Partner, i dont have friends, but i listen to bullshit from around the world, the friends are evil most of the times.

nawtee_me · Answer

The best partners are also the ones that are best friends too.

Fromdusktilldawn · Answer

Reliable, no taking advantage, not shutting down contact with you when getting a girlfriend

Nikki1989 · Answer

You need both, or it's never going to work.

Hulk30 · Answer

i'd say friendship because all relationships in reality are a business first

Anonymous · Answer

Partner, friendship seems fickle and frustrating. To be fair though, I've never really made any friends, but I had one boyfriend once

Alwayreckles93 · Answer

I always put first my partner.

serious · Answer

Neither of them are important to me.

dustybiker · Answer

Both. First I want to tell everything too.

Jdjfjcjj · Answer

The RIGHT partner is more important

Andres77 · Answer

Partner (who should be my best friend).

Hannajenky · Answer

Both are important and needed in life

BJP21 · Answer

A balance of both.

Aikol · Answer

A partner is also a friend

LavLavLuv · Answer

Both, but theyre not on the same level

Jamie05rhs · Answer

That's the exact same thing.

Debbie14217 · Answer

loyalty honesty

Mafia24 · Answer

Always friendship no second thoughts on this.

Anonymous · Answer

You can become a prostitue with your friend together. 3 some more money

Anonymous · Answer

They should be one and the same.

likelyOK · Answer

A partner

eagle1951 · Answer

i have to say both

Noahzaid · Answer

What’s your ethnicity?

anon1903 · Answer

Friendship

Jennz6 · Answer

Partner

In_Trance · Answer

balance of both

Fuentes · Answer

Money lol

Malikshahbaz · Answer

Hi how are you dear

EaterPeter · Answer

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