Can there be love with no friendship?

[coachTanthony]

We are talking about romantic relationships.

YES

NOPE

[HawkPerception]

Every relationship dynamic is different. All you need to do is compare to other relationships. Like can you live your kids without friendship? Absolutely. That was the most common dynamic for the older generation... that relationships between their kids and them required respect... not friendship.

It's the same when it comes to significant other relationships. You don't have to be their friend to love them, find them attractive, want to protect them at all costs, and die for them.

I will say though, that being a friend to your partner does make the relationship more fun and... wholesome?

I personally don't really see someone as a friend at the start of a relationship. It's strictly a romantic partner kind of relationship. But it usually develops into friendship down the road.

[molonski2]

Everyone is different , 100% there can be love without any friendship at all , these two things are not mutually exclusive , respect does not have to mean friendship , just as people can achieve great working achievements under the same scenario indeed , friendship is not the right word.

[DishLady]

Not really… friendship is the most basic form of close connectivity with a person. Love comes from that. (The exceptions are the unconditional love a child feels for it’s caretaker (s).)

[Simslover92]

I believe there needs to be some kind of friendship with your partner. You want to like who you're with not it just be a lust thing because that dies quickly.

[NathanDavis]

my guess and take on this is... you can't have a better and truer love, without the "components" of a friendship...

I often was friends first, but not every time... and we still ended up there..

[TheRealPepperPotts]

friend (n.)
Old English freond "one attached to another by feelings of personal regard and preference," from Proto-Germanic *frijōjands "lover, friend" (source also of Old Norse frændi, Old Danish frynt, Old Frisian friund, Dutch vriend, Middle High German friunt, German Freund, Gothic frijonds "friend"), from PIE *priy-ont-, "loving," present-participle form of root *pri- "to love."

[worldscolide]

Nah I don't buy into that. My wife is my best friend, my closest confidant, and my greatest ally. I love her with all of my heart, I could not imagine not hang the friendship as well.

[TonyMetal___86]

It's going to be hard if you don't get along together and gettinf along means friendship

[Anonymous]

I'd say the question is invalid.

Could there be love without friendship?

[WhitneySnow]

No. Why would anyone even want that?

[Anonymous]

Sounds like angry sex, then.

[sheikalana]

I mean it can but is not going to last long.