FRIENDSHIPS

Friendships are so important to me, I value them just as much as family. How to maintain and make your friendship richer:

1. Keep in touch! It's pretty tough to maintain a friendship if you never have contact. Even if they live in a different city, give them a call them every once in a while

2. Respect and learn to appreciate your differences

3. Adjust your expectations if they are not regularly met. Don't expect the best out of others. Like yourself, they're only human. Forgive and forget the little things

4. Regularly and openly express to your friend that you are grateful for the friendship. Don't let your friend feel like he/she is giving his best to you, while all your doing is taking. It's all for one and one for all

5. Do not allow gaps in your contact to create permanent resentment. Sometimes it is not possible to have regular contact. Try to understand your and your friend's time limitations and don't allow these realities to limit your friendship

6. Make an effort to know, remember, and embrace what and whom else is currently important in your friend's life. Don't cut down the people that your friend loves

Value friendships and love those who love YOU.....

xoxo RitzyNina