>>126493Happy that you have a bestie like that.
I ended up dating my best friend personally and I visited her every day until nightfall if I couldn't stay the night (we were teenagers at our closest), she just made my life so much better. We tried dating for a bit because we were so close that people mistook us for a couple, but we really saw each other as friends and weren't attracted in a romantic way, so we broke up. We drifted a bit apart after that but our friendship was still on par with the romantic relationships I've had when it comes to closeness and I'm actually really happy we were this way, we enriched each other's lives, idc what anyone says.
I bet if you had said that you talk to your partner 4h a day, your therapist wouldn't have batted an eye.
I once had a friend who was actually demanding of my time and it was tedious, she'd get really upset with me if I didn't feel like chatting with her for a day and make a really big deal about it like "don't you like me anymore" etc. and just guilt-tripping me. I still liked her but I thought she was a bit clingy. (I was actually kinda crushing on her despite this tbh, she was just super cute even if we sometimes clashed, but that's beside the point.) Maybe your therapist mistakenly thinks it's a situation like that?
Either way, it sounds like your therapist is really missing out when it comes to close friendships. Maybe she doesn't have close bonds or maybe she's the type who thinks that only romantic relationships can be that close and anything else is weird.
>they have their own partnersYeah, there it is.
There are some people who genuinely can't imagine being as close with a friend as they are with their spouse or whoever. It's tragic, really.
