It's hard enough to have "best friends" when you are single. Adults move, change jobs, and change relationships so often these days, that long term best friendships are rare, and the ones who last are to be treasured.
But best friendship is even more difficult when you partner up--everybody has to like everybody or you can't have another couple for your mutual best friends.
We are lucky in that way. Our best friends came for dinner and just left. It was great. But as much fun as it was, I wouldn't want to live with them, you know?
Yet, a few months ago, another friend mentioned that he had been invited to a 4-way wedding..two guys, two women, taking their vows as a foursome. I thought that was weird, but only on the level of personal eccentricity. However, after recently reading something on some web site about the virtues and joys of "polyamory". I'm starting to wonder if this isn't possibly an emerging shift of essential societal values.
I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the idea, I remember when the idea of a couple living togerther without being married was a shocker to our parents' generation. Now I know how they felt