Whoever has a friend has a treasure, the saying goes, and it is incontestable that the company and the support of a friend in both good and bad times is essential for our well-being emotional. However, as in all types of human, couple, family or work relationships, relationships are not always healthy from the beginning. emotional point of view, and, instead of doing us good, they undermine our self-esteem, weaken us psychologically and undermine our it was worth. Therefore, we must be attentive to those signs that indicate when a friendship It is not emotionally healthy, but quite the opposite and it is time to finish it.
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- Give and take
- Accept the other as they are
- Support for
Give and take.
One of the aspects that makes friendship great, like love, is the ability to give without expecting anything in return. But this does not mean that it is only we who must give and the other receive, but there has to be a balance between what friends give and receive
Accept the other as they are.
When we are friends with someone, we accept them as they are. This does not mean that we do not help you improve in certain respects, just as our friend does with us.
Sometimes this help is transformed into an exaggerated criticism, or into phrases loaded with sarcasm and irony, both in public or in private that call into question our way of being, acting or thinking, containing, deep down, a contempt, a lack of respect or envy, feelings completely incompatible with the true friendship.
Support for.
The friends they are an essential base on which to lean when we are going through a bad time, just as we are for them. If your friend always seeks your support when he needs it but is never there when you need it, it is time to rethink the friendship relationship.
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