Lesson 18: New Friends And Relapse Prevention - Slide  23

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Defining Friendship

  • Trying to force a friend to meet all our needs is a useless and potentially destructive exercise
  • People have significantly better friendships when they know and can easily describe what each friend contributes to the relationship
  • The meaning of the word friend has lost it’s original intensity
  • A distance acquaintance might refer to you as a good friend or a business associate might refer to you as their friend
  • A true friend is someone who measurably improves your life, a person in your work or personal life whom you can’t afford to live without

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