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Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by mrfree(m): 1:43pm On Aug 15, 2017
Is it right to be in a relationship and still have a best friend who is an opposite sex?..

Please I need your Contribution.

CC: Mynd44
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by eezeribe(m): 1:45pm On Aug 15, 2017
Best friend and Lover or partner or spouse are not the same thing...
They may or may not be the same person...
And there is no hard and fast rule that stipulates your partner should be your best friend?...
Dear OP,if you have a childhood friend of over twenty years,whom you consider as your best friend ;and you recently started dating a girl,does she automatically become your best friend

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Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by optional1(f): 1:49pm On Aug 15, 2017
is right if you are still doing boifriend and gurfriend


is wrong if you are married.. Your spouse is your best of the best friends you can have..

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Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by eezeribe(m): 1:53pm On Aug 15, 2017
optional1:
is right if you are still doing boifriend and gurfriend


is wrong if you are married.. Your spouse is your best of the best friends you can have..

This is a misconception,your spouse may or may not be your 'best of the best friends'
For example,a man based abroad comes home for Christmas,and finds a girl that catches his fancy,they get acquainted and it finally leads to marriage,within a few months...does she automatically become his 'best of the best friends'?... NEVER.
Best friend is not a title gotten overnight,unlike husband,wife,boyfriend,girlfriend... It is a function of the degree of closeness(emotional not physical,legal or contractual).
This is what separates the LOGIC from the EMOTION.
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by simpul(m): 1:54pm On Aug 15, 2017
Wrong!
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by optional1(f): 1:57pm On Aug 15, 2017
eezeribe:

OK


Glory To Jesus!
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by eezeribe(m): 2:03pm On Aug 15, 2017
optional1:



Glory To Jesus!
Amen
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by mrfree(m): 2:05pm On Aug 15, 2017
eezeribe:
Best friend and Lover or partner are not the same thing...
They may or may not be the same person...
And there is no hard and fast rule that stipulates your partner should be your best friend?...
Dear OP,if you have a childhood friend of over twenty years,whom you consider as your best friend ;and you recently started dating a girl,does she automatically become your best friend


Thank you, you made sense.
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by eezeribe(m): 2:09pm On Aug 15, 2017
mrfree:

Thank you, you made sense.
You are free indeed... Thank you too.

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Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by eezeribe(m): 2:12pm On Aug 15, 2017
lalasticlala,is your partner your best friend
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by MrBrownJay1(m): 2:28pm On Aug 15, 2017
if you had a best friend before marriage, and your partner had no problem with it, then why should it be a problem AFTER marriage?!
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by Draei: 2:32pm On Aug 15, 2017
Hell no, your damn partner should be
your everything including being your bestie.

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Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by MrBrownJay1(m): 2:36pm On Aug 15, 2017
Draei:
Hell no, your damn partner should be
your everything including being your bestie.

so married people should only have ONE best friend?!
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by Nobody: 2:38pm On Aug 15, 2017
mrfree:
Is it right to be in a relationship and still have a best friend who is an opposite sex?..

Please I need your Contribution.

CC: Mynd44
u mean having a sidechick?
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by Nobody: 2:39pm On Aug 15, 2017
Draei:
Hell no, your damn partner should be
your everything including being your bestie.
dats how stella damasus snatched someone"s husband wen the lady"s husband made her his bestie grin
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by MFerrara(m): 2:42pm On Aug 15, 2017
Forget the bs about your partner being your best friend - while there will always be some attraction for a best friend of the opposite sex, a long-term friendship is often much more important than a relationship, since the latter will often break after a few years, but a true friendship will last a lifetime!

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Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by Draei: 3:08pm On Aug 15, 2017
MrBrownJay1:

so married people should only have ONE best friend?!
Whats your definition of BEST FRIEND.?
I just shake my head when Nigerians say
they have 2, 3 best friends...wtf? Go check
the real meaning pls. 2 or more things can't
be labeled BEST alongside each other...
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by mrfree(m): 3:26pm On Aug 15, 2017
eezeribe:
Best friend and Lover or partner or spouse are not the same thing...
They may or may not be the same person...
And there is no hard and fast rule that stipulates your partner should be your best friend?...
Dear OP,if you have a childhood friend of over twenty years,whom you consider as your best friend ;and you recently started dating a girl,does she automatically become your best friend



Your friend of over twenty years can still be your friend but from the very moment you start dating its advisable you see to it that your relationship is worth it and to that you'll definitely wanna be close to your partner because you wanna make the best out of your relationship from A. Peters

CC: Lalasticlala
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by mrfree(m): 3:27pm On Aug 15, 2017
eezeribe:
Best friend and Lover or partner or spouse are not the same thing...
They may or may not be the same person...
And there is no hard and fast rule that stipulates your partner should be your best friend?...
Dear OP,if you have a childhood friend of over twenty years,whom you consider as your best friend ;and you recently started dating a girl,does she automatically become your best friend



Methinks that that childhood best friend was only occupying the space pending the arrival of my woman. When I start a SERIOUS relationship, I should be seen transferring my time, money, attention, love and... I do spend on her to my partner. I will not totally abandon her for the mere reason that I'm now in a relationship but she should understand things are no longer the same; I have commitment to someone else that's now more important to me. - From Victor A.

Mynd44 Please help with FP
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by Nobody: 3:46pm On Aug 15, 2017
That a man/woman is married doesn't mean he/she can't keep friends of the opposite sex as bestfriend even when your spouse is supposed to be your best friend. That your spouse is your bestfriend still limits what you've share with him/her, and what you would share with a bestfriend of the opposite sex. It's said that your spouse should be your bestfriend so one could freely express his/her feelings whether good/bad to their spouse and by so doing it makes communication easier.

My husband may be my best friend while I share how my day was at work, who annoyed me and who didn't, how a particular person has an attitude, what my worries are, while at the same time I may as well have a besty of the opposite sex with whom I'm likely to share marital issues with, like: how my husband misbehaved and counsel on what to do, other relevant/irrelevant gossip I may or may not share with my husband but deemed it fit to share with that friend.

Mind you, before you call someone your bestfriend your relationship with that person must have been defined as platonic and he/she is ok with it.
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by mrfree(m): 3:49pm On Aug 15, 2017
lefulefu:

u mean having a sidechick?

lol.... No Side Friend.
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by Martin0(m): 3:51pm On Aug 15, 2017
Benita27:
Some people's ways of reasoning is funny. That a man/woman is married doesn't mean he/she can't keep friends of the opposite sex as bestfriend even when your spouse is supposed to be your best friend. That your spouse is your best friend still limits what you've share with him/her, and what you would share with a bestfriend of the opposite sex. It's said that your spouse should be your bestfriend so one could freely express his/her feelings whether good/bad to their spouse and by so doing it makes communication easier.

My husband may be my best friend while I share how my day was at work, who annoyed me and who didn't, how a particular person has an attitude, what my worries are, while at the same time I may as well have a besty of the opposite sex with whom I'm likely to share marital issues with, like: how my husband misbehaved and counsel on what to do, other relevant/irrelevant gossip I may or may not share with my husband but deemed it fit to share with that friend.

Mind you, before you call someone your bestfriend your relationship with that person must have been defined as platonic and he/she is ok with it.

You speak sence chai,if other women can reason like you eh..
Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by Nobody: 3:55pm On Aug 15, 2017
Martin0:


You speak sence chai,if other women can reason like you eh..
Some people think once the opposite sex is termed a friend then sex would be involved in no time. It's not entirely true 'cause people are different.

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Re: Having A Best Friend Outside Your Relationship Right Or Wrong? by Martin0(m): 3:57pm On Aug 15, 2017
Benita27:
Some people think once the opposite sex is termed a friend then sex would be involved in no time. It's not entirely true 'cause people are different.

I jus tire for some people ooo
Person nor fit get girlfriend or boyfriend in peace again..
Well sha I nor blam them..
People need to change their mentality oooo

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