Friendships can be easier than family relationships. After all, you’re not stuck with your friends for life, unless you choose to be. But the flipside of that is that your friends don’t have to stick with you either.
Just as with relationships with lovers, there are also Rules that will help you to keep your relationships with friends easy and rewarding, and will ensure that the people you love want you as a friend. You need to make sure that you don’t antagonize or upset them in ways that will damage the friendship.
Likewise, you need to know what you can reasonably expect of your friends. If there’s friction between you, what’s the cause ...
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