Jameela Jamil

I think it's crippling relationships and I think it's crippling society.

It's really suffocating.

No, it's not possible and it's not healthy and it's quite boring.

And I think it makes people grow sick of each other.

I think it's really important that my partner, I've been with my boyfriend for 11 years, that we have very separate interests.

We actually actively glaze over certain things that the other one is interested in.

And then there's someone else to go and enjoy that thing with and indulge in that thing with.

So you get a bit of space, not just physically, but also mentally and emotionally.

I think it would be creepy to expect everything I get, especially from my girlfriends, to find that in just one person.

My friendships are...

paramount to my existence and I never ever let that slip when I started entering into a serious relationship because I think it's imperative you hang on to that relationships can come and go and they are also dependent on someone wanting to see your genitals whereas your friends largely don't and so therefore you have a friendship that is only dependent on your character not your ability to be attractive to another person yeah

So I think friendships are far more important to invest in than romantic relationships even.

That is just my personal opinion.

You should invest in both, but your friendship should not be going by the wayside for love because love is very, very, it's not guaranteed.

It's transient.

So as a woman, you are just expected to pour outwards.

And when you pour outwards towards girlfriends, you are more likely to get something back.

And I love my boyfriend and he is my best friend, but there's a specific magical bond that women have with each other that I'm so sad that so many men in the West in particular don't have.

I don't think it's men worldwide, because when I look at men in the Middle East, for example, they face each other, they kiss each other on the cheek, they're very tactile, they're very emotionally invested.

I'm not saying they have a perfect culture, but I'm just saying that the friendships between men, there is a real sense of brotherhood over there.