I chose my best friend as my 'life partner' over romantic love

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After a string of narcissistic boyfriends, I moved in with Susie. I was 28, and a jaded serial monogamist. Now, I couldn't accept a future without her in it.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.This year, my best friend and I will celebrate our 20th anniversary of living together. Twenty years in a relationship that, for a long time, I have struggled to describe. We are friends, companions, emotional but not sexual intimates, and we’ve built a partnership that shares attributes with traditional marriage, open marriage and polyamory.

At that time, she was 35 years old, had experienced several long-term relationships with men and, like me, had no desire to rush into another. She was working towards setting up her own arts funding organisation and wanted to focus on that.We both felt a sense we were destined to share some kind of adventure. Unsure of what we were heading into, we decided to carry on. Our relationship differed from anything I saw around me.

Susie owned our flat, but we considered it a joint asset. Yet as we built this home life together, I never felt our relationship embodied the routine, comfortable companionship some couples reach after many years together. Our connection constantly forced us to examine our hopes for the future. To challenge each other to become the women we aspired to be.

After securing a scholarship, I took a PhD in creative writing at the University of Edinburgh and started the novel that eventually became, a psychological thriller, published in 2018. In return, I supported Susie’s ambition to start her arts organisation, which we achieved in 2015 with the launch of The Bridge Awards.In keeping with a Boston marriage, neither of us had a desire to be with a man full-time, and we both, for different reasons, knew motherhood wasn’t our destiny.

Susie and I don’t always approve of each other’s choice of partner. She will always tell me what I least want to hear, and, infuriatingly, she is usually right. Likewise, I can be very blunt when I think Susie is involved with the wrong person. But we’ve both learnt to express our opinion without interfering and to trust that the other person will take the advice when ready.

 

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And then your best friend wants to start a family

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