Friendship: The Laws of Attraction

The conventional wisdom is that we choose friends because of who they are. But it turns out that we actually love them because of the way they support who we are.

By Karen Karbo, published on November 01, 2006 - last reviewed on May 20, 2011

My best friend, Olivia, and I met in a fiction-writing class many years ago. We bonded in an instant during the discussion of one poor soul's incomprehensible story involving a woman who'd undergone surgery and was described delicately as having lost "that which made her a woman." Suddenly, out of my mouth sprang my impersonation of Monty Python's Eric Idle, "Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean?" Every other student in the room looked at me as if I'd lost my mind, but Olivia snorted withlaughter. Thus, a friendship was born.
When people are asked, "What gives meaning to your life?" friendship figures at the top of the list. Yet the dynamics of friendship have remained mysterious and unquantifiable. Like romantic love, friendships were thought to "just happen." New research shows that the dance of friendship is nuanced—far more complex than commonly thought. With intriguing accuracy, sociologists and psychologists have delineated the forces that attract and bind friends to each other, beginning with the transition from acquaintanceship to friendship. They've traced the patterns of intimacy that emerge between friends and deduced the once ineffable "something" that elevates a friend to the vaunted status of "best." These interactions are minute but profound; they are the dark matter of friendship.

Friends and Friendship

Friends and Friendship  by Dr. Bill Denton   A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.(Proverbs 17:17)     You can always tell a actual friend: when you have made a deceive of yourself, he does not experience you have done a lasting job. (Laurence J. Peter)     A lot of individuals go through lifestyle with only a few buddies. It seems that some have less than that. They have no one on whom they can contact in excitement or bad. There is no one with whom to jump thoughts around, or to discuss deeply and unpleasant topics. They have no one to contact in periods of need or problems. They are subject to lifestyle, status alone.     Others seem to have lots of buddies. Wherever they go, individuals know them, and like to be around them. Should problems reach, their greatest uncertainty might be over which companion to contact. They know exactly the individual with whom to talk about the subjects of questions and controversy. Lifestyle is complete of interesting and stimulating connections because it is complete of buddies.     There ought to be a course in university on relationship. Of course, some individuals are completely satisfied to work with less buddies. They might rather have a few deeply and devoted buddies, than many trivial ones. Others flourish best when buddies are everywhere and several. It is not so much the variety of buddies that is essential as is the ownership of buddies, interval.      Relationship is a advantage, and a companion is the route through whom great psychological, religious, and sometimes even actual delights circulation. Buddies can brighten us when we’re sad or frustrated. Buddies can task us when we allow ourselves to get beyond our affordable restrictions. Buddies can encourage us when we’re willing to provide in, and they can offer for us when lifestyle comes apart. They are there when all is well, and we want someone with whom to discuss everyday enjoyable and unforgettable times. We often just want them around to have enjoyable, to chuckle, to act foolish, have fun with some mutually liked action. In how many methods have friends overflowing our lifestyle and created us experience liked, approved, well known and cared for? Probably, too many to record, and the record develops everyday.     It is safe to say that when God created the world and all the majestic things in it, when he streaked the heavens with radiant color and the earth with grand mountains and awe-inspiring canyons, when he painted the plains with waving grasses and erected noble forests of towering trees, he outdid it all by creating friends. Why not take a moment or two and thank someone today for being a friend to you?     May God bless you with all the friends you need, and may he turn you into a blessing by using you as a friend to others.

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First off, you should ask yourself what you consider a actual connection to be. You need to know what your needs and wishes are from another individual, and what you are willing to provide them. This way, you can see beginning in your first times, if you wish to proceed and perform towards a upcoming together, and if the other individual seems the same of course (both sides count).

Once you have chosen to have an formal connection, you both need to keep in mind what introduced the two of you together in the first position. For example, what drawn you to each other both actually and emotionally? What do you appreciate about his or her personality? This will help not getting the other for provided, which can often occur after two individuals have been together for years. This does not mean the really like is removal, but it does mean that there is deficit of attempt. People usually get idle after a while, because they experience is completely secure. This problem can be solved when both people are willing to make the time and effort. Read also our Love Pullution article.

Everyone is separate in their own values and thoughts about factors, so never anticipate a individual to always see factors your way. However, you should have identical objectives out of a connection, if you wish to prevent consistent justifications. Look for factors like whether or not it is essential for the both of you to see each other everyday, or have sex often. While seeing each other each and every day seems amazing and healthier to some individuals, others may go through covered and need area to have some time alone. Or if sex is on the top of your record, but is not on your associates, you might want to consider that, unless you do not thoughts holding out around or looking after yourself once in a while based upon you have to wait!

Persistence is one of the primary important factors to a normal and balanced connection. There are periods when our associate will not answer in a way in which is attractive to us, but this does not mean we have to take it so seriously or individually. Always slowly down, relax slowly and think of factors why your associate may be performing a certain way. Supposing and getting to results is always an harmful phase to take because it reveals your associate that they are not eligible to act easily and they experience assaulted, in addition to it reveals that you instantly believe the toughest of them. Provide your associate a while and let them know that you will be there for them when they are willing to discuss. Regardless of what the scenario may be, patience is fantastic in a connection, unless your associate never wants to discuss issues with you (which would mean you need therapy or keep the relationship).

Loyalty is also at the top of everybody's record when it comes to what individuals want out of a connection. A individual needs to know that they can believe in their friend because it creates a location of protection and comfort and ease around them. They need to know that they can at least depend on their adoring associate to tell them the truth, regardless of what. Being individual indicates NOT being ideal, which indicates we will get some things incorrect. Now, we should not let that reality cause us to creating faults we already know are incorrect beforehand. If your associate intentionally creates faults or you intentionally get some things incorrect, it reveals that you or your associate does not have regard and proper take health care of the other. This is harmful for the connection. What is good and balanced however, is acknowledging that the error you dedicated is an error. You or your associate need to know that what they did was incorrect and they need to experience the consideration for what they did. Once you or associate have noticed this, you can then determine a way of how you will acknowledge your incorrect doings to the other.