Seven simple ways to ruin your friendships
Friendship is one of the precious things in the world. Not many people would want to be lonely, so you should understand better what are the mistakes you don’t want to make if you want to maintain your friendships. At Paul’s Tips, he has consolidated number of may that may kick your friends away. Many of them are behaviors that you can alter and improve:
- Talking at people, not to them
- Not behaving in a respectful manner
- Complaining all the time
- Being difficult when people are making arrangements
- Treating friends like servants
- Acting like you think you’re better than them
- Being stingy
Seven simple ways to ruin your friendships – [Paul's tips]
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Roman Rytov says on July 11th, 2006 at 9:52 am
Since there is no option to leave comments at Paul’s site I put it here. I’d add a couple of other ways to kill friendships:
- pursuit your point of view when you’re not with agreement with a friend (if you don’t like your friend’s last gain, or a choice, or a taste don’t try to convenience her to change the mind and take your point of view). I found it corrodes relationships and makes her not willing to share anything with you. Better to accept her view and tactically let her know that you’d make it differently.
- being neutral or negative about things that excite your friend. Right relationships include your desire (and an ability) to share your friend’s joy.
- being over-supportive when practical advice and pragmatic criticism is sought. Encouragement is a must but not at the expense of concern and care.
- not finding time to talk/meet/communicate. It’s acceptable to be in a blackout for awhile but real friendship expects high priority.