🎙️ Ep. 6 Friendships in Marriage: Couple Friends, Opposite-Sex Boundaries & Staying Connected
How do you navigate friendships when you're in a committed relationship — especially as a married couple? In this episode of The Couples Edition, we dive into how we manage friendships as partners: from opposite-sex boundaries to the benefit of couple friends.
We’re sharing the friendship rules we’ve set in our marriage, how men and women approach friendship differently, and how to avoid losing yourself — or your friends — when you fall in love. Plus, we get real about the “gray area” of opposite-sex relationships and where we personally draw the line.
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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
00:40 – Difference between men & women friendships
05:25 – Clashes over whose in our wedding parties
09:19 – Do you cut friends out or ghost them?
12:09 – Maintaining friendships when you start dating someone new
15:33 – Using a calendar to organize couple vs friend time
17:38 – It’s so important to maintain friendships outside our your significant other
19:20 – How Elie maintains his male friendships
22:30 – How Alli maintains friendships
23:58 – Creating our couple friends
26:58 – Finding who you can confide marriage things with
34:51 – Deep Dive Tea Time: Are close friends of the opposite sex okay?
37:55 – Is it okay to be friends with your ex?
39:41 – Scenarios with the opposite sex.. what would you do?49:25 – Closing advice on having friends as a couple
🎧 Whether you’re dating, engaged, or married, this one’s for you.
👇 Tell us in the comments: Do you think it’s okay to have close opposite-sex friends in a relationship?
📲 DM us or tag us on Instagram @thecouplesedition with your thoughts or friendship stories—we’d love to hear from you!
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