Anonymous poll to follow. you can click several options.
I voted the second option (“LOVE”), but now I see I wasn’t supposed to, since we haven’t been together three or more years. I don’t think I can unvote, so mentally subtract one from that total.
Truly my other half.
Been together more than 20 years, can barely imagine life without him.
Numbers 2, 4 and 5 all fit us about equally so, since I could, I chose all three. We’ve been together over 20 years now. We celebrated our fourth anniversary last February 29th, so we’ve been wed for over 16 years.
Been married 21 years, we’ve been a couple for 30+ yrs.
I checked 2,3,4 - because it sort of depends on what day you ask me. I certainly don’t want a divorce, and I don’t want a different man, and I do love him. But I’m afraid that he needs me more than I need him (emotionally). If he were taken by aliens tomorrow I would miss him, but it wouldn’t be the end of my world. And I doubt I’d marry again.
It’s wonderful to be loved, and he spoils me rotten - I should probably love him more than I do. But I’m a loner and sometimes it’s really hard to just get away and be me…
Been together since 1969. Love all the way.
LOVE, in all its blessings.
All the options assume reciprocal feelings. Maybe there should be choices like “I love her, she tolerates me”.
Going on 32 years, and still he is the love of my life.
If you want to get a divorce there is no poll on earth that can tell you it it is ok or the best decision. If you are unhappy in your relationship, end it and allow you and your husband to develop new lives.
I picked 2 and 5 – the latter because, for almost two years (and for the next month or so), there has been a possum sharing our bed. 
Seven years together, five years married, and I can’t imagine life without her. She’s the only person I actually like spending time with (aside from our kids).
20 years together, and he’s the one I want to tell stuff to, when I get home at the end of the day. I hope we get to have another 40+ years, but if something happened, I believe I would be able to go on. I just don’t believe that there is only one true love for people.
hug
You’re a man? I had no idea. (I guess I subconsciously associated you with Happy Rockefeller.)
Wow. Reminds me of this statistic
and this blog:
http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2009/04/07/my-wife-is-my-best-friend-the-guy-code-and-the-inability-to-get-naked-without-getting-naked/
This is kind of different outside the US, although I can only speak for the Netherlands. Men here invest more time in (male) friends and their own family, so, in friendships outside their romantic partner. Perhaps that leads to less passionate marriages, I don’t know.
Is that directed at me, or at others who chose option “I want out”? 
Hmm this isn’t a great time to be answering this poll, but I just did brag about him in the single mom’s thread, so yeah he’s between 2 and 4.
I voted #2, though I would never refer to him as my “best friend,” nor would I want to. He’s not my friend, he’s much more than that. I feel much more deeply for him than I ever would a friend. I have plenty of good friends and one “bestie” (hate that term) and the feeling is completely different.
However, while I feel much more deeply for my husband than I do my best friend, there are some things I simply can’t or don’t want to talk about with my husband. He can’t give me recommendations on certain types of birth control that worked well with him and didn’t turn him into a raving bitch, for example. There are some things he just can’t sympathize with or doesn’t want to hear about and my best friend and I have great meaningless conversations with her that actually wind up meaning a lot to me. He also can’t take a step back when I’m being weird about something my husband did. I don’t complain about him to her, but she helps me think about issues with my husband more clearly than he does because he’s involved; she’s not. I have to have a third party, just like she does.