Lesson 32: Siblings and Friends - Slide  36

Positive Friendship Qualities
- Like or love one another
- Have fun
- Share confidence, activities, talking or emotional support
- Trust, honesty and loyalty
- Little or no jealousy
- Competitiveness is minimal and healthy
- Confidences are kept
- Gossip is rare
- Promises are kept
- Equals
- Friends not used or put in compromising positions
- Borrowed items returned
- Tactful
- Honesty not misused for hurtful reasons
- Friendship is flexible as needs change
- A priority even when busy
- There in good times and bad
- Lots in common but different enough to make things interesting
Notes:
Pg. 59, “When friendship Hurts, How to Deal with Friends Who Betray, Abandon, or Wound You,” Jan Yager, PH.D,. Simon and Shuster, New York, 2002.