Do you have a “backup” — someone you’ve agreed you’ll end up with should you both find yourselves single in the future?
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No! I was perfectly happy being single, and if my husband and I ever broke up, I would never share my home with someone again. I'm not saying I'd never have any other relationships, but being single wouldn't hurt me.

This feels like a thing that only happens in films. Or maybe teenagers talk about it but obviously it doesn't happen.

Absolutely not! For me personally that just feels so disrespectful and wrong. It feels like options instead of commitment.

My ex had this arranged with one of his female friend. Which I found really odd.
I didn't want to get in the way ahah

Maybe my best friend but not in a gay way 😝 strictly platonic

I think the backup is living with really cool girlfriends and realizing we don’t need men and they possibly make things worse lol

Absolutely not. If anything happens to my husband, I’ll eventually get a fabulous lover for sex and a top-notch housekeeper for keeping the chores in check, and just embrace single motherdom. No clue what’s happening with any of my exes but they won’t be getting a call 😅

😂 I did but that was before I met my husband and I don’t talk to him anymore

No way..I'd definitely never get married again or live with another man. Maybe just casual sex but then you gotta go

Yeah I do have a backup. He’s out there somewhere. I just haven’t met him yet 😵💫

I mean my best friend and I promised to marry each other at 35 if we were single while we were in high school. He’s now come out as gay 😂 he said we can keep our agreement and get married for tax purposes while living separate lives in the same house lmao. My husband loves this man and if he stays terminally single like he has been I wouldn’t put it past my hubby to have him move in with us 😂

I did, but things got kinda odd...he was my best friend and as we got older there was some attraction but he never really asked me out or anything. So I dated different people and every time those relationships were over he was there offering me comfort. The first time we kissed he spent the entire next day not speaking to me. The second time we kissed he told me "there's going to be someone someday who loves you very much."
After I got engaged to my husband he messaged me and told me that he had loved me all along. I told him that he never made that clear and I was happy with having someone who did.
We remained friends for a time after that with the occasional visit and message. He got engaged and we had an unrelated falling out. It's rather complicated but involves my jackass brother.
Anyway all that to say, yes. I did.

If something ever happened to my husband, and I, I think it would literally destroyed me... I can't even imagine life without him

For some it sounds romantic but it is weird if not humiliating... Today you are not with the backup because you don't like each other that much and rather take a chance with someone else. If everything else fails with anyone else out there, then you take them. 😐 Buh-bye. I would not be anyone else's back up.

Nope! If I didn’t have my husband i would just be single. I don’t want anyone else.

When I was single and in my late teens me and my old best friend had said if we’re both single still at — age then we’ll marry each other 🤣
Needless to say, I met my lovely fiancé and haven’t spoken to that friend for over 5 years!

My gay best friend and I. We’ve been best friends for 20 years so far and he’s amazing. Obvs it wouldn’t be romantic but more a companionship