Is your significant other necessarily your best friend?

So, from a conversation last night with a very close friend, we were pondering about the relationship between best friends and significant others, and the degrees of emotional attachment. I think the question applies anywhere, from the realm of same-sex relationships to heterosexual relationships, to whatever in the middle. I asked the question on Twitter too

Question – is our emotional attachment to our best friends closer/equal/similar/not equal to that of our spouses/partners?

We were pondering about the argument that you always need a “best friend” and a partner/spouse, and that both of these individuals may have similar degrees of emotional attachment. In some ways, they can be both one and the same, but in other ways, for example, women may want to have their best female friend to go out shopping, or even bounce ideas, feedback, etc. Same with men.

Does this make sense? Ponderings and musings from a Sunday morning.

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