ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that friends and lovers are alike with similar personality characteristics and behaviour. Friendship is important to the human journey as it supports self-esteem, reduces feelings of alienation and loneliness and helps the individual weather times of disappointment and stress. A precondition for a happy life is to travel the road of reality so people must divorce themselves from the idea of “falling in love”. People should remember that love is also expressed physically, by hugs, kisses and a touch on the shoulder. At some point, friends may move on and become lovers. Love is present when the security and development of the partner is of equal importance to concerns for the self. A common belief is that cohabitation improves the chances of success in marriage. In conservative families and societies, people believe that marriage makes the relationship more respectable and the extended family feel more secure about the genuineness of the relationship.
