... calls one of friendship and partnership. Grunebaum notes with surprise that while the aspect of friendship is probably the least studied by therapists, it is one of the most common characteristics expressed by couples - that their spouse is their "best friend." Poet Robert Creeley has put this in beautiful form in a poem from about 1960 entitled "For Friendship" For friendship make a chain that holds, to be bound to others, two by two, a walk, a garland, handed by hands that cannot move unless they ...
