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It’s important to develop a friendship with your partner 🔐

17 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker explains why he chose his wife and why friendship is essential for a lasting partnership. He lists three primary reasons: shared ambition, physical attraction (her beauty), and the ability to have deep, intellectual conversations that go beyond sexual chemistry. He emphasizes that, even after 20 years together with many ups and downs, the friendship they built has been the cornerstone of their relationship, allowing them to navigate challenges and maintain a strong bond.

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At the time I met my wife, number one, she was equally or as ambitious as me. She was doing her own thing. She wanted to get, you know, she had some big dreams that even at times I didn't believe in. That was number one. Number two, she was bad then, she's bad now. Like, I'm talking about, you know what I'm saying? I'm talking about like she was— Beautiful. Beautiful, right? But not just that, she was the first woman that I was able to have a real conversation with. we would be in the house, the first thing that we thought about wasn't sex, right. And you got to think this is my 20s, so we at, you know, we ready, we like rabbits at that, you know what I'm saying. Right. But that wasn't the first thing, you know what I'm saying. That wasn't the first thing on our mind. Like, we would have intellectual conversations and things of that nature. I think what's most important though, what's most important is that we develop a friendship. And why that's important, you know, I'll be the first to tell you that the 20 years that we've been together has been ups and downs. Like, I'm not