Making and Maintaining Friends

Jack Daniels



In most cases, the transition from acquaintance to friendship occurs gradually. We reach out to offer friendship by offering a potential friend caring, listening, talking, sharing, accepting, and affirming. It takes time and effort to build a friendship.

Paying attention to means that you focus your ears, eyes, body and feelings on that person at one time. Talking is also an integral component of friendship. When a friend talks they are expecting shared information in return. If two sims don’t share similar interests-this part of the relationship can be very difficult and result in loss or lowering of relations.

Friends require one-on-one contact to survive: telephone calls and getting together are musts for best friends to continue. In fact, probably the quickest way to end a friendship is to neglect it and sever contact.

Yet it is often hard to make time in a busy day and busy life to maintain our friends. But if you don't have to have hours to spare to maintain a friendship try calling every other day. Send postcard from vacations. Go to lunch at least once a month. Simple efforts can prove beneficial for the friendship in the long term.