Would you consider your husband to be your best friend?

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Just that. I would consider my husband my best friend. We met through a common interest in a hobby and hit it off instantly and we’ve literally been inseparable since. Yes we have arguments but they’re few and far between. I see so many people on here complaining about their husbands and it makes me so angry that some men are so useless and don’t value their wife as a person and a friend. I was in a very abusive relationship in my younger years and honestly there’s not a day goes by where I don’t feel so thankful that my husband is my best friend (and that he’s also very easy on the eye but I’m biased lol!).

Sometimes I think yes, but sometimes I feel like calling him my best friend is doing our relationship an injustice. He’s the most wonderful person I know and he’s the first one I go to in any situation, good or bad, plus he’s fucking hilarious…. But there’s so much more to it than that.

Love, love, love my dh but he's not my best friend. He's my partner in life and we have a romantic and loving relationship, but we don't have loads in common and I feel closer friendship wise with my female friends. I don't think I'd make best friend cut with him either, and that's fine with me.

This is like me and DH. If people could hear some of the things we talk about or songs we make up they'd think we were mad! We get on very well on the whole.

Yep. I don't always think it but when things get tough he's the one who's there. Can't always say the same about my friends.

Yes

No. I married someone who I had things in common with, who I thought would make a great father, provide for us, shared ideals (and didn’t want to live abroad).
we’ve been married for 20 years and are very happy, but he’s not my best friend.

100% love hanging out with him over anyone else

“rickyrickygrimes · Today 18:57

No. Friendship and spouse are different relationships for me. DH is definitely my best husband though! 😂”

This with bells on. He is the most important adult in my life. I love him very much (most of the time) and we have great fun together (most of the time) and he’s one of my best friends but I treasure my close female friendships also and wouldn’t be without them.

No

@MumblesParty Love what you've written.

My first husband was my best friend
We ruined that by getting married.
10 years later we divorced. I remarried. My second husband was my husband, not my friend.
We had a wonderful marriage. I had other friends including a best friend.

Then DH2 died. Soon my friends drifted away. They didn't know how to be with me. I made new friends and my ex husband helped me out with practical stuff. We found our old friendship from before we married and he became my best friend again.

Then three years ago he died. He was my best friend ever. I have friends now but it's unlikely that I will have a best friend again. I knew him for 47 years so most of my life. I still miss him now.

Absolutely, there's no one else I feel comfortable enough with to share everything or fart in front of x

Eh? To me friendship and romantic relationships are different relationships. It's nothing to do with choosing someone reliable over someone you like. I don't fancy my friends, for a start.

I have several very, very good friends and, although my dh was the person I trusted the most, I wouldn't have ever called him my best friend. I spoke to these friends about all sorts of things my dh wouldn't have been interested in and spent a lot of time with them even though I was happily married. And they were there for me when he passed away.

Yes 100%. He is the only person in the world that I can be my full authentic self with, and I know without a doubt that he loves me for who I am (and vice versa of course!)
We’re not perfect and we do piss each other off, but our communication is great and we respect and support each other always.

Yes. Although we argue at times, none of it is terminal and usually just small frustrations. After 33 years we’re like a pair of comfortable slippers.

No absolutely not. I have 2 female best friends. They are there for me no matter what. They will be there through divorce, should it happen. They will be there for life. They talk me through my problems. Support me, make me laugh, I love them like sisters.
My husband is my husband. He is a solver, he doesn’t listen just to listen and not offer solutions. Yes I love him, but he also annoys the hell out of me. We are friends of course but he’s not and will never be my best friend

Yes absolutely. It amazes me how many of my friends in real life can’t stand their husbands, I feel in the minority.

No. My best friend is a man but he isn’t my husband.

I have a very different relationship with DH. He isn’t useless either, he’s great and I love him very much but I need a best friend who isn’t my husband.

Yes he is, and I am his.

Yes

Absolutely.

I did, naively. Until he cheated on me. Luckily I have some very good girl friends too!

This thread has been a hard read. I knew I shouldn’t have read it really. I lost my husband and best friend in one go earlier this year. Double betrayal. And then my mum died suddenly. Baby was in intensive care. It’s been a really rough year.

I’m in awe of having a best friend in a husband. I can’t imagine a man that I could speak to about anything, who’d always have my back, love me deeply and unconditionally. I really can’t imagine it. 💔

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hugs xxxx pretty similar here too xxxxx