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SOMETHING 'OFF' IN A FRIENDSHIP?   - THIS MAY BE WHY

10/14/2018

 
Several years ago, P. H. Wright, a professor at the University of North Dakota, authored a professional paper in which he outlined the qualities for real friendship.  If you have a friendship which feels 'off', look over this list of 8 qualities.  It's likely that several of them are absent in the friendship which has weakened it significantly.

  1. Voluntary - You’re not dragged into it.

  2. Informal – Unlike being selected for a team or hired for a job, friends don’t make rules but let the friendship simply evolve.
  3. Dynamic – Friendships ebb and flow with various changes such as getting married or moving away.
  4. Satisfying – there are more good times than bad. If that’s reversed, it’s not a healthy friendship.
  5. Communication – there is honest talk which goes deeper than discussing weather or work.
  6. Mutually accepting – friends remain loyal and intuitively factor in understanding and roll with ones oddities.
  7. Enjoyable – friends enjoy each others’ company and convey this in various ways.
  8. Reciprocal – friendship works both ways. If one dominates by constantly needing the friend to provide support and a listening ear for various dramas, the friendship is distorted and will likely end.

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