You've had your best friend since childhood, with whom you share your deepest secrets. Your fiance can't stand the person. What do you do?

Your relationship with your best friend is extremely close. You tell them things or they know things that your fiance doesn’t know (not because you are hiding things, necessarily—though you could be—just because they know your history).

However, you’ve never been more in love with anyone besides your fiance. They are your soul mate; your true love. Neither your fiance nor your best friend can (or will) explain the animosity between them. What would you guess is going on? Would you give up your friend for your fiance?

Or, let’s say you do marry your fiance. Some time after you are married, you discover that your spouse dislikes your best friend intensely. In fact, your spouse demands that you cut off relations with your best friend, and never talk to them again. Again, neither your friend nor your spouse can (or will) explain this animosity between them.

Have you ever been in a situation like these? What were the circumstances? What would (or did) you guess is (was) going on? Would (or did) you cut off your best friend? Remain friends behind your spouse’s back? How do (did) you handle it?

These are both hypothetical questions, and you need not answer both, or you might use one answer for both scenarios. I’m just trying to see how people might sort through a difficult, but realistic problem; what choices you make.