Enduring Vs Fickle Bonds

Table of Contents

• The Illusion of Friendship
• Friendship vs Romantic Relationships
• The Endurance of Friendship
• The Fragility of Bonds

The Illusion of Friendship

Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.

It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.

The friendships and love are mutual understanding, Once misunderstood, it is never got restore.

When their relationship fizzled out - and he clearly expected it to fizzle out - they would, what? Return to their friendship as if nothing had happened? At least I'll have him in my life.

My friendships, and I use that term loosely, were fleeting and fragile and often painful, with people who generally wanted something from me and were gone as soon as they got that something. I was so lonely I was willing to tolerate these relationships. The faint resemblance of human connection was enough. It had to be enough even though it wasn’t.

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

Friendship vs Romantic Relationships

Well, honey, once you've been head-over-heels in love with somebody, you don't go back to being 'friends'. It doesn't work that way. - Megan's Dad

...friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.

It goes back to keeping things equal. Friendship feels really demeaning if one person still likes the other more, which is probably what caused the breakup in the first place. It’s such a misnomer that ‘boyfriend’ and ‘girlfriend’ have the word ‘friend’ in them.""I don’t know, Dom. It’s screwed up that people who dug each other enough to go out can’t at least stay friends afterward."Spoken by a true love virgin.

It was not just friendship that we are attached to each other, it was sisterhood that made that bonding between us, but now that love doesn't exist anymore as people changes with time- that's reality.

Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever.

Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend.

It's not uncommon to have at least one friend that you used to mess with, and it didn't work out. But still, there's mad love there.

The Endurance of Friendship

Friendship lasted longer than love because the former never made tall claims or empty promises.All it did was be there when love wasn't.

Maybe friendship was loving someone even when you didn't always understand them.

Their love had developed out of friendship; friendship helped it deepen.

And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.

It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

The Fragility of Bonds

Everyone thought they would be friends for decades, forever. But for most people, of course, that hadn't happened. As you got older, you realized that the qualities you valued in the people you slept with or dated weren't necessarily the ones you wanted to live with, or be with, or plod through your days with. If you were smart, and if you were lucky, you learned this and accepted this. You figured out what was most important to you and you looked for it, and you learned to be realistic.

I just think that I screwed up what could have turned into a more significant relationship, or at least a lasting friendship.

There was just a moment when things weren’t quite the same, weren’t quite as they had always been through the long friendship.

Maybe friendship was loving someone even when you didn’t always understand them.

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that’s gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

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