Relationships shouldn’t just end with two people who love each other and who would want to be with each other. Relationships should be more; it should be about love and about friendship also, but not many partners have friendship with each other.
These are some signs you aren’t really friends with your partner.
1. YOU DON’T HAVE INSIDE JOKES
Friends have inside jokes; jokes that only them understand. Friends could just look at each other and laugh, because of that inside joke only them understand. Many couples don’t even joke with each other, and that’s a sign that friendship is probably lacking in the relationship.
2. YOU DON’T REALLY TALK TO EACH OTHER
Friends talk to each other a lot; they spend lots of time talking to each other about relevant and irrelevant things. When you don’t reveal things to each other and you don’t really have much to say to each other, your relationship lacks friendship.
3. YOU ARE ALWAYS TOO SERIOUS
Some partners are just too serious with each other and their relationship just seems to be robotic; it’s so serious and predictable. Friends aren’t so, and when friendship is lacking in your relationship, there won’t be any element of play and spontaneity in it.
4. YOU DON’T DO THINGS TOGETHER
Friends do things together; they love to be with each other, spend time with each other and do things for each other. A relationship without friendship would lack these traits.
5. NO FUN TIME
With friends, they are almost always seeking to have fun. Surprisingly, many relationship partners don’t have fun and don’t even know what fun means. It isn’t really that they are too busy to have fun times with each other, they just don’t. Friends don’t need to go out to have fun; friends can have fun even when they are indoors.
6. YOU ARE SCARED OF YOUR PARTNER
You shouldn’t be scared of someone you call a friend. If you are then you aren’t really friends. But some persons (married couples even) are scared of their partners; this just shows that they aren’t really friends with each other.
7. YOU DON’T REALLY HAVE EACH OTHER’S BACK
Friends have each other’s back, sometimes even more than a brother or sister. Surprisingly, many relationship partners don’t have each other’s back, and this only shows how friendship is missing in the relationship.
Friendship is undervalued by many people when it comes to love and relationship; but one thing I know for sure is that a relationship where friendship exists is always better than a relationship where friendship is missing.
Shawn