Friends and Peers

Being jealous of your friend’s successes is never productive for the sake of the relationship. Most of the time this happens because friends have more success in either their professional or personal life than the jealous person is having. When…
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Certainly, for society to be civilized there must be relationships between sexes that are not sexual, so the answer is yes, men and women can be just friends. Yet between the sexes (we are referring to two people who are…
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To be perfectly honest, the writer of this guide would have to say that he was not a “cool” kid in junior high. If he had to categorize himself in the social food chain, he was probably somewhere in the middle amongst the general population that…
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Jealousy is a killer of relationships. We often associate this emotion primarily with romantic relationships, but there are some friendships that suffer with it, as well. Jealousy is typically the result of fear, resentment, and/or low self-esteem that the person…
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What is Friendship? A quote by an author unknown to me expresses best what friendship means to me. “Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring…
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HOW DO YOU CATEGORIZE YOUR FRIENDS? Friendship comes in a variety of levels and forms. There is not a definitively scientific measure of friendship, though if you ask someone who their friends are, they can probably tell you. Friendship is…
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How to make friends When I think of a friend, I think of a comfortable, old shoe. A friend is someone you can relax around, drop pretenses with and enjoy being “you” around. Friends don’t put us on the defensive…
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TAKING THE TEMPERATURE OF YOUR FRIENDSHIP Friendship is often like our physical health. Hopefully, most of the time you feel pretty good and you can function somewhat normally. Sometimes you don’t feel particularly well or you sustain an injury of…
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A healthy friendship has the following ingredients, trust, understanding, non-judgmental, laughter and most of all love. Healthy friendships are developed over the years when we get to know our friends in our daily lives. Once the understanding between friends has…
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Any type of relationship should be a two way communication. Both listening and speaking are acquired skills, and both should be used by each member of a friendship. But each of these skills requires practice and concentration. A friendship will…
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Imagine this: You’re walking down a busy street in say, New York City, and you accidently bump into the woman in front of you. As you open your mouth to apologize, the women whips around and begins to lash out,…
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It can be tempting to resort to graphic displays of questionable activity to deter the looky-loos next-door, but it will probably cause more problems than it’s worth. Nosy neighbors are a frustrating annoyance and they get their daily fill of…
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Have you ever worked with a person who is miserable with everything and everybody? I have and it is not easy to swallow. I don’t like walking around on eggs all day afraid at any minute the egg will crack…
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Should ex-lovers be friends? Well should a worker return back to a job they quit or got fired from? Personally I believe it’s the same concept. I understand that some people are better of as friends than lovers but then…
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Getting rid of bad housemates can be as frustrating as getting rid of cockroaches. You can spray, bomb and smoke those roaches but when you wake up in the morning, they’re still there. They get into your clothes, eat your…
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As we know, love is a many splendored thing; at least until we break up that is. Then things can get decidedly messy; too messy in most cases to even want to remain friends. Why bother? After all they “dun”…
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How To Get Along With People You Dislike – In life, one is always going to run into people that you just do not like. This is just the way it goes, unfortunately, you could very well be forced to…
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Keeping your friends close and enemies closer seems like a counter-intuitive thing to do. A common reason for not getting along with certain individuals is usually that you do not like them. You could also dislike someone because it seems impossible to get along…
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There is one in every family or at every gathering, you know the one who knows everything about everything. Folks with these characteristics might cause you to run for the hills or you find yourself conjuring up thoughts that are…
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I have been living with my current house mate, J since May 2007. When I trained J at work, he told me how difficult it was for him to travel to work everyday. He had to take two differentpublic transports…
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Protocol For Unfriendly Co-Workers……The people we work with can affect how we feel about our job because of our working relationships with them. Do not discuss anything personal with your co-workers, especially about your income, home life and personal beliefs….
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The stereotype of a nosey neighbor, peering around living room curtains to monitor fellow neighborhood residents, may feel all too real. With seemingly innocent curiosity, a nosey neighbor can bring stress into neighborhood relationships. If you’re faced with a neighbor’s…
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“If he doesn’t shut his mouth soon, he’ll suck all the oxygen out of the room. At least I won’t have to listen to him after I’m dead.” We’ve all been there; trapped in a never-ending meeting while the Belligerent…
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Not everyone will like you. With a wondrous variety of people who fill the spectrum from tall, short, reserved to rambunctious, and don’t even get me started on religious divisions. It goes without saying that we will at sometimes find…
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I find it hard to believe there is any breakup that is entirely mutual, but for the sake of argument, let’s agree that even if they do exist, they are rare. This being said, the possibility of remaining friends becomes…
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Your in line at Walmart. You’re exhausted. You were up the WHOLE night before with a baby who has a cold. Which is why you are here; to grab cough medicine. You’re waiting, oh so patiently, and as you turn…
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In a perfect world it would be nice to think that after an intimate relationship with someone has come to pass that it is not necessary to simply discard the history, memories and effort invested in the relationship, allowing the…
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Dislike someone? First ask yourself why? Life is really too short to focus on negative energies such as jealousy, worry, hate, racism, and these tend to be key contributors in disliking someone. Now for some it could actually be the…
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Being popular is easy. All you need to do is be born popular or know what to do to become popular. Have you ever seen people walking around in huge groups of people and wondered how one person could get…
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I actually have a split opinion on this one. I lean a lot more towards the no side but I do feel that there are exceptions to most rules. I chose no because I do not want to be friends…
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