Yes. Scripture calls a husband or wife both friend and companion. In the Song of Songs a woman says of the man she loves, “this is my friend,” and Malachi calls a wife “your companion.” Catholic teaching goes further and calls married love the “greatest form of friendship,” a phrase it takes from Thomas Aquinas. The woman in the Song comes to the end of her praise of the man she loves and sums him up in two words: beloved…

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