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Marrying Your Best Friend: Right Or Not?

For many people marrying your best friend is a taboo. They do not like to mix friendship and love. But for many, marrying your best friend is the smartest thing you can do. This is because they are friends in marriage more than lovers. Every single person has a different perspective in this regard. That is why, the idea of getting married to your best friend is a hot topic for debate.

Like all other issues that are polarised, there are both plus and minus points of marrying your best friend. In fact, getting into a marriage with your friend is a double edged sword. It might work like a dream or it might fail like a nightmare.

So lets do a pros and cons analysis of getting married to your best friend.

Marrying Your Best Friend

Pros Of Marrying Your Best Friend

Friendship Makes Marriages Last: What eventually makes a marriage last is friendship and not just love. Love and passion usually blow over after the newly married phase is over. But friendship lasts for lifetime.

Understanding: Usually, your best friend is the person who understands you the best. And understanding is something that can solve all marriage problems. So marrying your best friend is like ensuring that your spouse always understands you.

Common Friends: Most couples fight as they cannot get along with each others' friends. But when two are best friends, you are bound to have group of common friends as well. That is one less reason for fighting after marriage.

Cons Of Marrying Your Best Friend

Friends n Lovers: Being friends is quite different from being lovers. You may be great as friends, but you could still be incompatible as lovers. For example, you can excuse your friend for turning up late for dinner. When your spouse does the same, you get irritated.

No Excitement: Usually the initial phase of being newly married is filled with passion and excitement. This is one of the most beautiful period of any marriage. But the passion of the newly weds will be missing among best friends.

Knowing Too Much: As best friends, you both will know too much about each other already. So there is no scope for discovering each other and thus, there is a chance of boredom setting in early.

These were the pros and cons of marrying your best friend. As you can see, both sides are evenly balanced. So finally, it comes down to what works for you two as a couple.

Story first published: Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 18:45 [IST]
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