Is It Ok If Friends Are More Important Than Your Partner?

This Valentine's Day we ask ourselves who really are our soulmates?

Is it the person we choose to have a physically intimate relationship with? Or is it the people we have collected as part of our chosen family over time?

In this episode we explore whether it's ok that the most important person in your life is not your spouse or your partner but your bestie for life.

CREDITS 

Host: Claire Murphy

With thanks to: 

Elisabeth Shaw - CEO of https://www.relationshipsnsw.org.au/ who has worked for over 25 years as a clinical and counselling psychologist with extensive experience in relationships services. 

Outlouders Jacqui Lambert  and Elizabeth Young and our Mamamia colleague Rose Kerr who shared that their BFF's are most important

Producer: Claire Murphy

Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane

Producer: Kally Borg

Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri

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