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2007-08-15 14:59:57 · 33 answers · asked by enki 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes...but there's no quality to either
without the other. In a friendship, if one doesn't love their friend then the relationship is merely symbolic and distant with no real substance.
In a relationship, if one doesn't regard
their mate as a friend then the romance is essentially an infatuation
and is based on gratification rather than unity and completion.
2007-08-15 16:33:53 · answer #1 · answered by sylvester m 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When you meet someone new, and you start being Friends, and eventually you find out that what was Friendship has blossomed to Love, so there can never be Love without friendship. To the second part of your question,yes there can be friendship without Love.
2007-08-15 15:38:32 · answer #2 · answered by a.vasquez7413@sbcglobal.net 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think there can be love without friendship but not friendship without love. Love takes many forms and has many different degrees. You can feel love for a person you've never met out of a connection or common bond you share with them (loss, accomplishment or admiration) or out of circumstance (an orphaned child, harmed animal). I think a friendship is too personal for there not to be any form of love.
2007-08-15 15:49:17 · answer #3 · answered by Shug 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There can be love without friendship. You can love someone without liking the person which is classified as unconditional love. Friendship without love can not exist however. When you are friends with someone you must have a certain degree of love for the person. The amount of love that you have for your friends varies from friend to friend.
2007-08-16 03:56:51 · answer #4 · answered by komical 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No & No. Love without friendship would be--well, I can't even think of a silly, or empty enough analogy. Anyone who believes there can be love without friendship is either fooling themselves, or hasn't the slightest concept of the meaning of either of the words, but I suppose they can "exist" with this delusion. I'd not think much of the "quality" of that kind of relationship. (Often, love grows FROM friendship.)
Nor can there be friendship without love. Acquaintences, yes, but not truly friends. & it goes without saying that all friends are not "romantic" relationships.
There's great value in both love & friendship; they are inseperable for those who have the depth to feel.
Edit: miss_madame_s isn't speaking of love at all, she's referring only to sex. Oyaya...how sad to feel it would be reducing it DOWN if he were your best friend! To feel "discounted."
2007-08-15 18:41:23 · answer #5 · answered by Psychic Cat 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
YES. There can be love with out friendship and friendship without love. Love without friendship is for your lover and your family and friendship without love are your friends.
2007-08-16 04:24:24 · answer #6 · answered by @NGEL B@BY 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Love is thought-provoking, yet without thought. Love is having everything and knowing nothing, yet it is knowing everything and having nothing too. Love is the closeness of togetherness, and love is the solitude of isolation. Love is inspiration, intuition, joy. Yet it is also heartbreak and loneliness and solitude. Love is the trembling excitation of newness, and the shaking of the grief of loss. Love is a slow and steady pace, yet too, it is the exuberance that makes us want to run and dance and sing. Love is ecstasy and misery, sureness and confusion. Love makes us feel as if we could do anything, yet love also makes us feel like nothing at all at times. Love is being light-headed and dizzy, yet love is feeling heavy and as if about to die. Love is the slow and steady heart, yet the flutter of its racing too. It is freedom, yet it can also be the bars of a prison found deep within, Love is ageless and timeless and without dimension, yet love is here and now in this moment of forever. Love is ancient and new and ever-becoming. Love is what we always and ever and never can have, for love is dynamic. Love is the worth and the meaning and the quality of hope and hopelessness. Love is the glory of enlightenment and the darkness of unknowing.
2007-08-21 03:45:42 · answer #7 · answered by insenergy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Certainly there can be both. You could love someone's spouse, and you can have good friends who you don't love but have a strong bond with. When you have both of them together, I think it works better if love comes first, and then the friendship develops.
2007-08-15 15:35:42 · answer #8 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Friendship without romantic love exists. Or is that not what you meant?
2007-08-15 17:39:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
friendship without love. we make friends wherever we go. we don't love all friends. some are just fair weather friends. only a few can become our bosom pals.true friendship is based on mutual love , respect and trust .
2007-08-16 06:15:20 · answer #10 · answered by sandhya p 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋