Friends in Love is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in April 1982 by Columbia Records and included six original songs, two of which were duets with Dionne Warwick.

The album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's & Tapes chart in the issue dated May 8, 1982, and remained there for nine weeks, peaking at number 147. It also made it to number 34 during a seven-week run on the UK album chart that began the following week, on May 15.

The title track from the album entered the Billboard Hot 100 in the issue dated April 17, 1982, and eventually got as high as number 38 over the course of 13 weeks. That same issue included its debut on the magazine's list of the 100 most popular R&B songs in the US, where it also spent 13 weeks but reached number 22. The next issue, dated April 24, marked its first appearance on the Adult Contemporary chart, and during its 17-week run there it rose to number five.

This is the first Mathis album whose initial release included the compact disc (CD) format.

Ray, Goodman & Brown recorded "When the Lovin' Goes Out of the Lovin'" for their 1981 album Stay. "What's Forever For" appeared on the 1978 album Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive by England Dan and John Ford Coley, but Michael Martin Murphey also released a recording of the song in 1982 that went to number 19 pop and number four Adult Contemporary and spent a week at number one on Billboard's Country chart. "Memory" originated in the 1981 Broadway musical Cats and became a number six hit in the UK for Elaine Paige that same year. And Stevie Wonder's "Lately" reached number three in the UK and number 29 R&B, number 33 Adult Contemporary, and number 64 on the Hot 100 in the US.

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