Friends and Peers

When Friends Stop Being Friends When strangers stop being strangers, they can become acquaintances, friends, or significantly more with varying degrees of commitment from platonic pals to marital mates and everything in between. What ingredients are essential to maintain a…
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Overall, I have a hard time defining love and friendship as completed separate concepts. There is so much overlap that it is too limiting to suggest that there are always distinct differences. Much of their definitions have to do with…
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There is that part of the year again. You will be waking up after twelve and going to sleep after three. It will be at least a few months before you touch a book again. After all, you just finished…
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The qualities of a good friend are easy to define, but not always easy to accomplish.  There is a saying about good friends that I think sums up very well what a good friend should be “A good friend walks…
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When you think of the terms “soul mate” or “twin soul”, what comes to your mind? Do you think of someone who is exactly like you, sharing everything with you? Your hobbies, your passions, your desires? This is what many…
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A teens life lessons from friendships are like no other lessons in life. As a matter of fact, my only claims to fame happened when I was a teen growing up in Wichita Falls, home of the famous Dr. Phil,…
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The perfect hangover cure is not to get too drunk in the first place some would say. Yet that is obvious, patronising and very annoying, especially to the person who has the hangover. The one who feels like his head…
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     “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer.      Being a friend should not be difficult or trying, but should…
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Do Not Let Low Self-Esteem Damage Your Relationships What Is Low Self-Esteem? It is not a disease nor is it an irreparable mistake in one’s life. Not all children have good surroundings to grow up in. Though they are given…
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Friendship is sharing moments together. Once we engage ourselves with each other doing things together, be it playing or listening to one another, we have a friendship. Once that act of knowing each other is done, this is where the…
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Being a deployed soldier is not the most fun job on the planet. Most of them have loved ones at home that they are missing and, let us face it; they are not in the most pleasant environment. So, how…
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Remaining friends with your ex is possible in some cases, in others it’s nearly impossible. Most people would like to believe that they can be friends with their ex. At the end of a lot of breakups each person reassures…
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Do you have a long list of friends, and so many that you don’t have time to spend with all of them? It could be that your list exceeds the reality of what a real friend is meant be. Too…
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There is a thin line between love and hatred… so the saying goes. This also applies when it comes to the issue of love and friendship (which are just like five and six). While the above statement refers to how…
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I have been happy and I have been sad. At both times, I had friends around me, but the sad times were when I appreciated them the most. Those times were also when I felt their presence the strongest, as…
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“This world is desolate without friends” Friends are more than rains in the summer, snows in the autumn, hays in the spring and the sun in the rains; they more than words. They are omnipresent, even in unforeseen circumstances. That…
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I’m an older mom with a large family of ten children, and also a foster mom for the state. Sometimes the sheer amount of caring for others, makes us moms of big families neglect ourselves a little bit. Recently, I…
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Well my best friend lives in Florida I live in Ohio so of course we rarely see each other very much. But even still she is my best friend and we’ve been through so much together, both good and bad. …
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Low self-esteem can damage relationships because it is not a positive feel-good thing. It can be very destructive and soul-destroying. Low self-esteem has fear and lack of confidence at the heart of it and affects three main areas of one’s…
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Friendship is a relationship between two or more persons that like and respect each other; a rather general explanation for a sometimes complicated affiliation.  Because I love to tell a story, here is my version of friendship.  The taste of…
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It is not too clear whether adversity begets friends but, apparently it does beget quite a bevy of acquaintances. The Bible states that “a friend is meant for adversity”. To my understanding that means although adversity may not likely be…
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As much as I love babies, I would never suggest bringing one to a movie theater. I’d rather stay home myself and mind the child, even if it meant missing the movie. If I didn’t have the option of staying…
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Apologizing to anyone is difficult. When the apology has to be given to a good friend, it is worse. The risk that the friendship could sustain further damage from a botched apology looms large. The level of guilt from whatever…
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Broken friendships can’t always be mended, but they can at least be understood.  Not being friends with someone suddenly, can be particularly hard, when you are on the receiving end and don’t understand what has happened to create such a rift. However,…
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For the introvert, the state of their being is not a lonely, disappointing existence where they are just waiting for someone to reach out and befriend them. At least, it’s not that way for me. The only problem that I…
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As the old saying goes, You are known by the company that you keep. People are drawn to the wrong type of friends for many reasons. Often when adults are drawn to the wrong type of friends they are looking…
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I think of Lynn. Lynn was a great guy. He was a wonderful man. He was my best friend. He was black and I am white. When I fisrt met him, I didn’t like black people at all. It didn’t…
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What is a friend?  There are many definitions to many of us and the definitions are not going to be a same.  We are all going to look at one another and say, “Hey friend, can you spare a dime?”…
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True friendships are not disposable, but they do sometimes naturally fizzle out. This is often no ones fault. It has more to do with life changes which alters the friendship from what it used to be into something less tangible….
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It is better by far to have no friends at all than to have a toxic one. In the same way that you would not drink the drain cleaner under your kitchen sink, you shouldn’t engage in relationships with people…
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