Your Partner Is Not Your Best Friend

People often to look to their partner to fulfil everything they need and therefore place their friends on a secondary tier.
Your friends have most likely known you before you met your partner and will hopefully be there for you as you navigate different relationships. By keeping your friends close they will help you make sense of the world and yourself. They will keep you safe.
If you close friendships aren’t maintained it can put an unhealthy pressure on the relationship to work because the alternative is too terrifying to consider.