Characteristics of Good Friendships
This is the word referring to friends who treat each other the same. No one friend is better or worse than the other.
Equality
Strangers
After you find a common interest, the next step is to do this. It allows the people you're talking to to not have the only responsibility to keep the conversation going.
Ask follow up questions.
Casually look over
Name something you and a friend could have in common
Ex. Love of animals, sports, movies, traveling, food etc.
When you're in a good friendship you can have this with the other person. You know they won't tell other people things they know you've done or said.
Honesty and Trust
This is the type of friendship when people see each other a lot. They know each other really well and choose each other to hang out with over other possible friends.
Best friends
The FIRST thing you should do before you trade information is do this to get a conversation going.
Ask the other person questions
Step 2. This means finding something you could talk about like "Hey, I really like your purse!"
Use a prop
Clubs, church, Parks and Rec, Sports, gaming, etc.
A good friendship is one where you can solve problems together and get past them and continue to be able to be friends.
Conflict resolution
This type of friend is someone you may hang out with when your other friends are around. You probably wouldn't hang out with them alone. It can also be the name of a style of dressing.
Casual Friendship
An example of this would be. "Have you been to Brazos tacos?" After you get an answer you may say. "Yea, I've been there a few times. It's super good!"
Answer your own questions
Find something you both like, in other words....
Find a common interest
This is a program we can use and remember for putting people in categories that helps us remember appropriate touch and personal space with others.
This refers to the ability of a friendship to find things you both like. To have things you both like to talk about.
Sharing of common interests
This type of friendship is someone you may talk to at work but you don't hang out outside of school and you only talk about broader topics like the weather or the last restaurant you went to.
Acquaintances
Always remember this. If you don't, people will feel uncomfortable, get bored, or lose interest in talking to you. It refers to you talking TOO much and the other person not talking ENOUGH.
Don't be a conversation hog.
Give your phone number and get theirs as well. Give them your name if they don't know.
Trade information
Name someone you should NOT trade information with
Stranger, certain community helpers, boss, customers
When you treat each other with respect, you are nice to each other, you let the other person know you feel bad when they are sad and you're happy when they are happy.
Kindness and caring
This type of friend is one who you hang out with sometimes but not constantly. You may talk on the phone and hang out alone with each other but you don't tell them in depth detail about yourself.
Regular Friends
If you say "So why don't you have any siblings?" you might have forgotten not to do this when you first meet someone.
Don't get too personal at first.
This is when you ask yourself "Are they talking to me?", "Are they looking at me?"
Assess interest.
Name one thing you could do if people don't seem interested in the topic of conversation.
Walk away, change the subject, make an excuse that you need to leave