What You Do And Don’t Need To Agree On In A Relationship

February 16th, 2012 - By Julia Austin

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“Everything is great, but…” You or a friend has probably started a sentence about their relationship like that before. We’re all slight perfectionists when it comes to relationships. Differences between a partner and us stick out to us like a sore thumb. But, you need to stop and ask yourself, is our difference in opinion over this issue worth ending the relationship over? Or will it actually not affect our ability to lead a stable, happy relationship? Here is a list of things you do, and don’t, need to agree on with your partner.

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  • Bella

    In terms of ‘The Nature of Friendships’, what if your boyfriend has an a**hole of a friend who tries to encourage him to do things with other girls because his girlfriend isn’t around and won’t know anything about it?

  • MixedUpInVegas

    Men’s friendships are so different than women’s friendships.  Men’s friends generally revolve around some shared interest or activity–playing golf togehter on Saturday or watching sports.  Women talk more to their friends about personal issues and feelings, things happening in their lives and so on.  Men get companionship from their friendships; women get emotional support.

    Men who have female friends often do so because they share some commonality–maybe they were childhood friends who grew up in the same neighborhood; maybe they are coworkers who share employment-related interests; maybe they play team sports together.  Either way, if your guy wanted his female friend to be more than that, he would have chosen her, not you.  It is risky business for a new girlfriend to come on the scene and try to rearrange a man’s social order.  I’d resent it if my husband tried to tell me who my friends could be and how my social life outside our marriage should go.  Why wouldn’t a man feel the same way?

  • Sugar_Spice

    What about the nature of friendships with the opposite sex?

    • http://www.facebook.com/RosarioRed Rosario Stefania Scarsci

       If a man has a best friend who is female I refuse to date him. If a man I am in a relationship with begins befriending a female and he refuses to end it, we’re going to end, no matter how long we’ve been together. I am so tired of people using “They’re just my best friend!” as an excuse to hang around attractive people of the sex they’re attracted to. I don’t tolerate.

  • jnetdnj

    Interesting article. Helpful tips.