Manliness and Living With a Woman

Most men make that awful mistake of spending a lot less time with their friends after they find a good woman. Somehow we believe (our women told us) that this relationship is all we need. So we focus on our friends that are coupled up too, and have family friendly double dates. You might have that nagging feeling that this is wrong, but you shut it up by saying that ‘my marriage is more important than poker night’. Well, it’s NOT. I’ll give you three very good reasons why having fun with friends are more important than keeping your woman company in front of the TV:

Three Reasons Why Friends Are Better Than Girlfriends:

1. You can have as many friends as you want
If you’ve got a capacity for a lot of friends, go ahead. Nobody’s stopping you or turning sour because you are making new friends. It doesn’t quite work that way with girlfriends.

2. A friend is still a friend even if you haven’t seen him for a year
A girlfriend or wife needs regular attention. If you fail to do relationship maintenance, it will come to a grinding halt. Friendship goes into sleeping mode. It might be a bit rusty when you wake it four years later, but it’s still there.

3. If you lose a friend, you’ve still got friends
Losing a girlfriend makes you girlfriendless. You go from having to not having. There’s no in-betweens. When you have friends, you always have backup if you lose your wife, a friend or a family member. I call it my safety net.

Are you still not convinced that friends should have a higher priority than your girlfriend? Well, let me hit you with my final argument:

Three Reasons Why Friends Makes You More Attractive to Your Girlfriend:

1. Having many friends show her that you’d be OK without her. So she’d better take care of you.
2. Spending time with your friends makes her miss you, showing her how important you are to her.
3. Venting with your buddies takes the edge off the small unimportant things and make your relationship better.

Photo by Mighty mighty bigmac