we had both felt a bit stifled in the environment where we were living and going to school. we just weren’t speaking the same language anymore, and our needs as friends weren’t being met. you don’t have to speak the same love language as your friend, you just have to make space for each of you to be heard and understood. you can take the 5 love languages quiz, and pass the link along to your friend to get a …
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you may have even met each other’s family and other friends, which takes a lot of the stress out of announcing a new relationship. believe it or not, there’s a lot to consider before you make the (mutual, and explicit) decision to date a friend. unless you’ve discussed this in clear terms before, it can be difficult to determine whether your friend likes likes you or if they’re simply acting the way a good friend should. if one of you …
a loveless marriage has reached a stage where neither partner is a source of joy or comfort for the other, and it is more like being with a familiar roommate that you don’t really care much about. here are a few of them: one of the sure sins of a loveless marriage is that you and your spouse criticize each other at every opportunity. if you feel that talking to friends is better than your partner as you harbor feelings …
the term is typically used in historical scholarship, and describes a very close relationship between people of the same sex during a period of history when there was not a social category of homosexuality as there is today. he notes also that the writer c. s. lewis, despite not being a proponent of a homosexual interpretation, found the sonnets’ language “too lover-like for ordinary male friendship” and declared himself unable to find any comparable language used between friends in 16th-century …