Friends vs boy/girlfriends

I'm sure we've all had this dilemma at some point. When your significant other is not getting along with your friends, who is it that gets to take priority? And worry not, whenever they are not getting along - no matter how good you are at skating on thin ice - at some point you will need to prioritize one over the other.

In most of the cases, I'd recommend that friends take priority. Friends are for life in most cases. Only one significant other will be for life.

But if you're at the point where your significant other might actually be the one?

I would judge which of them respects my choices more. In the end, who I choose as my friend and who I choose as my significant others are both choices I made. They may not like each other, but they should respect my choice in liking both of them.

Knowing they don't like each other and actually getting involved in open argument are two different things. So, if they don't like each other, but manage to stay civil to one another, all is good. If they do argue, I would start checking to see who was the one who crossed the line first. And that would usually show me who is the one who respects me and my decisions less.

Hopefully in the heat of the moment, my mind would still function properly enough to make the correct decision.