151 - How Having Couples Friends Can Make Your Marriage Stronger

Today we are talking about why friendships with other couples for you as a married couple is important.
Do you have couple friends? I know it is so hard to find a couple you both like.

I will never forget in Shadowlands the story about C.S Lewis’s life where he says after his group of friends one of the 3 friends dies he says I mourn both my friends because Tolken will be the same person as he was with all 3 of us. The way he laughs at our friend who has passed jokes, etc. I love watching Ryan with our friends, the jokes he makes, the stories he tells, etc.

Love this quote from Ibelieve magazine: “The truth is, your most important relationship should be your spouse. The idea of leaving people and possessions behind to cling to one another is biblical truth (Genesis 2:24). Yet, the Lord also created us to live amongst one another, often referring to relationships amongst our neighbors throughout the Scriptures.”

Why is it important and how to find friends at our age is what we will share today.

Why have couple friends:

physchcentral.com a great blog shared these reasons:
Couples often benefit from seeing themselves in the eyes of their friends. Couple friends are in a unique position to affirm a couple's new connection or validate the love and life they have witnessed their friends share over many years.
Couple friends remind each other of the good times shared and the hard times mastered together- a perspective that partners may have difficulty remembering on their own.
Hearing other couples speak about family or child care issues is often a learning opportunity for a couple or a point of gratitude for what they don’t have to face.
Observing the affection shared by couple friends for each other often stimulates an increase in emotional connection in a couple themselves.
Observing another couple disagree about what happened last summer without killing each other or getting stuck in eye witness testimony differences is an implicit lesson not to let the small stuff steal a good feeling or a good evening together.
Many times couple friends become family to each other's families or become the second chance family that is always there when needed.

Now where do we find friends at our age?
Church - join a small group or a Sunday school class, find who you both seem to click with and ask them out.
School events for your kids or sports events, find the couples you seem to find interesting or click with and invite them out.
Host a game night at your house and invite a few couples over
Start a pickleball group or tennis team or golf, something to do together.

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