Best Friends
Previously, I wrote about good girlfriend relationships, and the balancing act of good male-female friendships. This time around, I want to ask you this: Who’s your best friend in the world?

Lots of us would say Jesus, but I’m intentionally drawing a distinction here. God’s our best friend in heaven and earth, but while we’re in the world, if we’re married, we’re given someone to walk with more closely than anyone else.

This can be a painful topic.

Marriage is not always best-friendship. Resentment can build up, interests can diverge, careers can cause distance and differences. For us women, the key thing is a sense of sanctity. While men tend to define intimacy in physical terms—how time is spent concretely (together or on other people, working at the same goals or conflicting ones), women define intimacy by what belongs to the two of us alone. Continue

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