The Empathetic Friend

 Even with your closest friendships, you will likely encounter a time when you need to resolve conflicts with a best friend. Fighting with friends is never easy. But dealing with conflict can make you and your BFF better as individuals and as friends. Conflicts can strengthen a relationship, improving your communication and emotional bond once you have resolved it. Whether you are experiencing conflict now or want tips for the future, it’s always helpful to learn friendship conflict resolution. We need to try to see both sides. Your perspective is your reality. Your friend’s perspective is their reality. Both perspectives are valid. When you talk to your friend, keep an open mind and an empathetic point of view.Tell your friend honestly how you feel. Even if you aren’t sure you are the one to blame for initiating the conflict, apologize. It’s important to acknowledge that you are sorry for the fight and sorry for your part in it. Take responsibility so you can both move forward. Be...

 If as a friend you find yourself in the habit of criticizing, questioning, suggesting, fixing, or trying to change your friend, you’ll likely see a dynamic that plays out in your friendship where your friend won’t feel like they can be themselves around you.They're there for the moments you just want to let your hair loose, knowing someone will be there to hold it up for you later, and everything else in-between. In turn, they may start to measure their words, withhold information, or withdraw, and will subsequently feel silenced, resentful, or will begin to pull away. Manuela Schmitten, psychologist at Inner Space Psychology, suggests looking inward at your own life experiences. Have you personally experienced pain or frustration as a result of similar actions? For example, if your friend is involved with a married person and you’ve been affected by cheating in the past, this may explain why you’re feeling hurt.These friendships give as much as they take. You can vent a...

 Honesty is a sign of respect – if you respect your friend, you’ll be honest with him or her. Honesty is important to your friend because they can trust you. If they know you won’t lie to them or cheat on them, they can share their feelings and personal information with you without fear of being judged. Because honesty means that your friend trusts you to respect them for who they are. If you don’t respect someone, you’re more likely to lie to them or be dishonest. This is true in any relationship where there’s no mutual respect. Depending on how much power one has over the other (or if neither has any power at all), this can lead to dishonesty on both sides. Honesty shows that you have confidence in yourself and your friendship – if you aren’t afraid to tell the truth, you must believe in your friendship.This is important because when you’re honest with a friend, it shows that he or she can trust you and open up to you completely. It also shows that you care enough about your frie...

  Hello everyone,Today's topic is pretty impressive.In my previous blog I talked about the changes in friendship through the times.In this blog I will like to let you know the importance of the need of having a strong and good friendship. Friendship is a two way road where both sides need to equally take part .The bond becomes strong through time and they should help each other grow and move ahead to a successful career and life.There will be times in one's life where it might seem as everything is falling apart and probably every thing will be better if we wouldn't there which might lead us to do something which is not right. During this situations the only thing we want is to be heard by someone, someone who listens to our thoughts.Most of the times it's tough to talk about the things we are going through to our family,but if we have a friend who we can trust on and talk about the thoughts that we are going through can prevent us taking any wrong decisions.There are m...

  A friend in need is a friend indeed.' A very famous quote we all have heard about since childhood. The meaning of the quote says" a friend who helps at difficult time, on whom we can rely on in difficult situations." The quote used to give us hope when we were young in our schools to believe on each other and have a bond among us called friendship. Do we believe in this now?I think after covid conditions and entering twenties slowly leaving the teenage group had already made us realised that the rules and the meaning of friendship changes through time.It changes to more of a business rather than friendship. To find a true friend,to find out who actually listens to you, understands you where u can feel free to talk without any thought of being judged,is my blog is all about. The art of being a good friend and the need of having a good friend both of this are equally important. So here's ur 'Empathetic friend'who will listen to you understand you and help you ...