Should Your Spouse Be Your Best Friend?

Should Your Spouse Be Your Best Friend?
It’s common at award shows, as when Justin Timberlake said not long ago, “I want to thank my best friend, my favorite collaborator,
my wife, Jessica.” It’s common on how-to sites, where authors write articles on “nurturing a friendship” with your spouse.
Maybe it’s the heightened attention on friendship in social media; maybe it’s the decline of actual friends in our lives; maybe it’s
because we all have access to public declarations of once-private relationships.
As he researched social connections a few years ago, he found
that everyone derives benefits from online friends and real-life friends, but the only friends that boost our life satisfaction are real friends.
Is considering your spouse your closest friend a sign of hard-earned intimacy, attachment and trust, or is it a sign you’ve become so enmeshed in the day-to-day logistics of managing your lives
that you’ve given up sexual attraction, passion and erotic play?