[Closed] Is your partner also your best friend?

Yes! But only for the last twenty years.

you big girls bra

Yes, unless I want to talk about cars, bikes or girls.

I hope not...my best friend is a dog.
Come to think of it ,the ex-wife was a complete bitc........

i wouldn't want my best friend touching me where the OH does! 😯

I wouldn't want my OH touching me where my best friend does.

Certainly girls I've been with in the past were friends as well as lovers, and in a number of cases they are still some of my closest friend even after many years. We may not see each other very often, distance and lifestyle prevents that, but when we do get in touch, conversations last for a very long time, and we all trust one another implicitly. I certainly can't imagine not being friends still with someone I loved deeply. And still do.

I wouldn't want my OH touching my best friend.

She was.

no

😯 and 👿

Oh yeah! Why on earth would you marry anyone that wasn't? I'd rather spend time with her than anyone I've ever met in my life. 13+ years so far.... 🙂

buzz-lightyear - Member

She was.

So was mine 🙁

Peter Poddy is 13 years old....explains a lot.

Eh? Was that a dig?

Wooooooshhhh!

Why on earth would you marry anyone that wasn't

'cos I'm not marrying a big scary punk, even if I have known him since I was 4 😀

Course not PP 😀

Weeeeeeeeeeeee (bit random due to being housebound all day)

for sure

Yes, not had one like that for a number of years tho 🙁

Yep indeedee!
I'd rather ride with her as well,(i know..english language is full of inuendo)but she isn't driven to ride from Plymouth to some dark part of the Moors at 10:30 at night 😀

My wife is not my best friend, but then I didn't want to marry a bloke.

Especially one with ginger hair.

Aye. She is.

yes, this time round. first one wasn't, that says it all really

No, I've known my best mate for 25 years and my wife for 13 years. If I had to depend on someone to save my life it would be my best mate.

In the grand scheme of things - the wife would probably make it into 5th place. (3 kids)

yes. nobody else comes close...

yes i am.

100%. even if half the time she annoys the shit out of me.

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Yes.

Good pumpkin.

Absolutely so much so I spent the day with her instead of going out for a ride. 🙂

Best friends? The very concept baffles me. I know lots of people in very different ways but best is not a category I could place anyone in. How odd

Plum

yup... i reckon so.

i can do as i please and things are generally tickety-boo. annoying at times, but then so are some mates. not only that i get to put my * in her 😉

spchantler - Member
yes, this time round. first one wasn't, that says it all really

yep same here to, I even sacrifice time on my bike to be with my wife sad but true

Is she ****!My little Chinese lover is my best friend.

No!

My best friend doesn't nag me and insult me so the answer is definitely no.

Yes, couldn't imagine it any other way.

My best friend doesn't [s]nag me and[/s] insult me so the answer is definitely no.

what weird friends you have 😐

my partner doesn't insult me, but my friends do.

will i die?

I wouldn't know. I don't have any friends. I'm a right ****!!!

Can I just add that this is the gayest thread [b]EVER![/b]. I'm going to report it for being far too overly nauseating to be greeted with after a long weekend.

Get a grip. Or else....

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😉

binners +1

Yes

Yeah, I guess she is.

My best friend treated me to a business class flight to America
My partner forks out for the 2-4-1 pizza on Orange Wednesdays

I believe I am entitled to mush, considering after nearly 10 years together we married on Sunday.

We had a candle lit during the service that read.

"Today I married my best friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love"

It was a little soppy, but my 'husband' (wow!) even said it was lovely too!

*THWACK !

That's on the back of your head.

I take my partner to bed. I take my best friend for a walk. 😀

She's my closest friend without doubt.

Best mate is reserved for...erm well, my best mate!

I'm sorry but if you can use the same type of terminology and vitriolic and, at times, frankly sickening abuse and baseless,libelous accusations about perverted and deviant sexual practices to your missus, as you do to your best mate, then there's something wrong with one of those relationships

Which one is up to you to decide

Actually Binners does have a point there. My Missus would be quite upset if I called her some of the stuff I've called my mates in the past, even in jest!

The Greeks have about five/six different words for "Love" including the good old Eros and the love for your parents, there's also brotherley love (oi, stop s****ing at the back!). Same is true of frinedship in my book, there's a few different types.

No. She is the person I am closest to and most comfortable with but ultimately my best mate is, well, my best mate. Different roles in life and so different people.

I wonder if those who consider their partner to be their "best" friend don't actually have any other really close friends because they've spent all their time with their partner.

My partner is not my best [i]friend[/i]. My best [i]friend[/i] holds that dubious honour.

Two completely different roles which, if swapped, would lead to some rather unpleasant results!

Getting drunk a bottle of Talisker whilst on a Beverly Hills golf course at Xmas, getting thrown off after hitting 95 in the front 9 and almost writing off the golf buggy into a bunker (plus various other on course "incidents"), then having to run away after refusing to leave the club bar which resulted in security being called and us hiding in nearby bushes, trying desperately to stifle our laughter as we hid waiting for our cab to arrive at "the third tree from the entrance to the golf club" = My best mate.

Lying on a hammock on beautiful evening, admiring the stars and listening to waves lapping at the shore, keeping the coolness of the gentle breeze at bay by wrapping ourselves around each other = My partner.

Just wouldn't be the same mixing those roles up.

Dunno, best friend has all sorts of connotations/baggage, my mrs is definitely my best drinking buddy I know that.

I wonder if those who consider their partner to be their "best" friend don't actually have any other really close friends because they've spent all their time with their partner

Getting drunk a bottle of Talisker whilst on a Beverly Hills golf course at Xmas, getting thrown off after hitting 95 in the front 9 and almost writing off the golf buggy into a bunker (plus various other on course "incidents"), then having to run away after refusing to leave the club bar which resulted in security being called and us hiding in nearby bushes, trying desperately to stifle our laughter as we hid waiting for our cab to arrive at "the third tree from the entrance to the golf club" = My best mate.

Lying on a hammock on beautiful evening, admiring the stars and listening to waves lapping at the shore, keeping the coolness of the gentle breeze at bay by wrapping ourselves around each other = My partner.

you should be doing all of those things with your partner, or otherwise what sort of misogynistic ideologies are you peddling to your children..?

scratch that.. the fact that you're indulging in golf, drunk in Beverly Hills or otherwise, would indicate that misogyny is only the tip of a very nasty iceberg..

She's my 'best'and only friend. I can live with that.

you should be doing all of those things with your partner, or otherwise what sort of misogynistic ideologies are you peddling to your children..?

scratch that.. the fact that you're indulging in golf, drunk in Beverly Hills or otherwise, would indicate that misogyny is only the tip of a very nasty iceberg..

Interesting, I reread the post you're referring to wondering where the misogyny came in and noted that there was no reference to the gender of either the poster, the partner or the best friend!

Edited to add - I guess the poster could be male from their username, but even in Internetland that's only one option!

She's my 'best'and only friend. I can live with that.

my comment wasn't intended in a negative/derogotary way, just that I've seen many friends from years gone by who have dedicated themselves almost exclusively to their partners, which results in the breakdown of how close they were to other friends around them.

Meaning the "my partner is also my best friend" is sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Interesting, I reread the post you're referring to wondering where the misogyny came in and noted that there was no reference to the gender of either the poster, the partner or the best friend!

Indeed 🙂

There are some moments in life that just feel more appropriate to share with my best friend, and other with my partner. Nothing to do with sex/gender or anything other than them just being two different types of relationship to me.

Interesting, I reread the post you're referring to wondering where the misogyny came in and noted that there was no reference to the gender of either the poster, the partner or the best friend!
Indeed

Touché. 🙂

my comment wasn't intended in a negative/derogotary way, just that I've seen many friends from years gone by who have dedicated themselves almost exclusively to their partners, which results in the breakdown of how close they were to other friends around them.

Meaning the "my partner is also my best friend" is sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Quite, and I agree with you. It's happened that way for me I'd say, but I'm ok with it after 12 years.

Yes she is.

Certainly.

I opened this thread because I had a bit much for dinner and was hoping for a good vom, things were looking good on the first page. But Binners and Peterfile kind of ruined it with their lack of greeting card prose sentimentality. The two roles are mutually exclusive. If they are the same person, you need to get out more and make some new friends.

All this thread needs now is Hora chiming in to say that they are also both definitely stepping out on you anyway, probably with each other, and it will be complete.

We tolerate each other, barely

Absolutely.

the thing i mostly dislike about threads such as this is that it shows the extent to which many of you love to paas judgement on the way others choose to live.

Isn't that the whole point of the internet? Well, apart from the pron obviously? 😉

Group hug?

herbivore pretty much every thread has some judgmental people in it, see the handbags/pissing up the wall contest on the big ring thread. The number of chain rings you run isn't exactly a lifestyle choice is it?

this one's just a bit more emotive

xherbivorex - Member

the thing i mostly dislike about threads such as this is that it shows the extent to which many of you love to paas judgement on the way others choose to live.

To reset the thread back on course, here's a picture of a kitten
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How does that work anyway ? When you express your love to you have to reference them in a pal-y fashion too ?

For example, what do you write on the bathroom mirror ?

"I Wub U, Matey"

Sparing partner.

Damn right

She took me to the theatre and I enjoyed it
I took her wild camping on Dartmoor she enjoyed it

nuff said

edit: photo thingy broken 🙁