Are friendships as important as relationships?
 

It's in the title.

To you, are your close friendships as important to you as a boyfriend/girlfriend/wife/husband or not?

As important yes.
Somethings you can only discuss with close friends, rather than family.
Hopefully you are blessed with your partner being one of your best friends as well.

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they are very different and yet the same

For me friendships are more important than relationships as I don't like the idea of being tied down to just one person, and if TV Shows are anything to go by, you have to be incredibly angst or dramatic 95% of the time.

Where as friendships are great because you can just have a laugh about things.

Oh Mock, love, TV isn't real.

They have to be dramatic or it's boring.

TV isn't real?:laugh:

No love. It's fiction.

There was me hoping to meet Tyrion Lannister someday.:bawling:

And me with Dany. :(

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If she were real we would've been able to have the Dragons warm us up in this freezing cold weather.:joker:

Well depending on the time, energy and experiences shared I'd say as important .. maybe more.

YES!!!

My partner is my best friend in the entire world, but as we get older I've definitely found that my other friendships are taking a back seat because my partner and I are beginning to settle and spend all of our time together. I hate the feeling of being tied down to one person so I definitely feel impacted by the reality of my friendships becoming weakened. From personal experience, based on the question asked in the thread title, friendships are definitely equally as important as a relationship.

my friends are very important to me but Gavin is my family so he has to be the most important (along with my kids obviously)

My husband is my best friend, no other relationship in my life comes close.

To me close friendships have always been MORE important to me than relationships and that's probably Reason Numero Uno why I'm single and my past relationships are pretty limited and short-lived lol...

Reason Numero Dos is that I'll randomly speak Spanish to say Reason #1.

Relationshis have to be more important and closer. Why because they are. Friends come next