{"id":57149,"date":"2015-04-15T06:31:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T06:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xenodochial-archimedes.45-76-20-142.plesk.page\/2015x104x1i-did-marry-my-best-friend\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T18:28:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:28:47","slug":"i-did-marry-my-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/2015\/04\/i-did-marry-my-best-friend.html","title":{"rendered":"I {DID} Marry My Best Friend and Why You Should Too – Mrs. Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019ve seen a lot of articles being passed around lately entitled \u201cI Didn\u2019t Marry My Best Friend,\u201d or something similar. In short, they are talking about the importance of friends, which I think is absolutely true. But, here\u2019s where they don\u2019t apply to me. Because I DID, in fact, marry mine.<\/div>\n
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My now husband and I were friends long before we began dating. We shared the same interests, activities, and could spend hours just talking. We became the best of friends before we even considered taking our relationship to the next level. I think this is hugely important. If you don\u2019t have a lot in common with your spouse, you\u2019re going to have a long lifetime ahead of you.<\/p>\n

I am of the small group of people that believe marriage is truly forever. I don\u2019t believe in divorce. It\u2019s not for me. I picked the spouse I have on purpose. I knew most everything about him before I even started dating him. I knew from the start he would be an amazing husband and father. Even before I knew he would be mine. We always say it\u2019s him and I against the world. And that is absolutely true.<\/p>\n

I love my friends- I do. And I think time spent with friends is really important to my overall sanity and well being. But, if my spouse was not my very best friend, I feel like I\u2019d be missing out. Think about it. Who do you spend the most time with? The hours after the littles go to bed? Those early mornings? Who has seen you at your absolute best, and worst?<\/p>\n

The bible says, in Ephesians 5:31, \u201cFor this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.\u201d<\/p>\n

If I am going to be \u201cof one flesh\u201d with someone, you bet your booty I want that to be my best friend.<\/p>\n

I am not saying that these articles I\u2019ve read are wrong. But they just don\u2019t apply to me. I want to grow old with my husband. I want to spend hours in conversation with him. I want to share the same interests. Yes, we do have hobbies that we do alone, but overall we\u2019re cut from the same cloth.<\/p>\n

If you didn\u2019t marry your best friend, it\u2019s not too late for your spouse to become your best friend. Spend more time together. Find a shared hobby\/interest you can do together. We can always improve and continue working and growing in our marriage.<\/p>\n

I hope I didn\u2019t offend anyone or hurt anyone\u2019s feelings. This has just been weighing on my heart since I read those articles, and I thought I would share my feelings.<\/p>\n

Please share with me why or why you didn\u2019t marry your best friend!<\/p>\n

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There’s a lot of articles entitled “I Didn’t Marry My Best Friend.” They’re talking about the importance of friends, which is okay. But, I married mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,15,1,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marriage","category-thoughts","category-uncategorized","category-wife","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsbishop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}