Love is a beautiful feeling, especially when you love someone and you’re loved in return. However, love without friendship cannot be compared to a love with friendship. Partners who are in love and are best of friends have a bond that can be compared to none.
Relationships shouldn’t just be about love, it should be about love and friendship for the following reasons:
1. UNDERSTANDING
When love is combined with friendship, partners have an understanding that can be compared to no other. When you’re more than friends with your partner, the understanding level knows no bound. In this kind of relationship, partners easily read and understand each other even without words — it’s a beauty.
2. YOU ENJOY EACH OTHER’S COMPANY
With friends, every moment is never a dull one; friends love being with each other and they enjoy each other’s company and miss each other when they aren’t together. So also with lovers who are friends, they enjoy each other’s company and every moment with each other is one to remember.
3. YOU SHARE EVERYTHING
Lovers who are also friends would share everything they have together; secrets would be hardly kept, selfishness would be far off from the relationship.
4. YOU’RE ORIGINAL
When with a partner who’s also your friend, you aren’t under any pressure to impress, so you’re original and your partner would be as well. You won’t be ashamed of your flaws when with a partner who is more than a friend to you.
5. SOMEONE WHO WOULD GENUINELY LISTEN TO YOU
Friends listen to each other; they try to solve each other’s problem and try to be there when needed. This you would have in abundance when you have a partner that you share not just love but friendship with.
6. COMPATIBILITY
A problem many relationships have is a lack of compatibility; love might exist at first, but compatibility issues might get the better of the relationship and it might kill the love in the long run. But love that’s mixed with friendship has a strong bond that outwits incompatibility.
Love and friendship have a synergy that wouldn’t be found in any ordinary relationship. So do not look for love alone, look for friendship.
Shawn