Friendship Rule And Relationship Ethics - 1367 Words

Growing up I had a lot of friends through school. We had our own group of about 4-5 people. We hung out every chance we got and back then were really close. Like most childhood friendships we grew apart. I’ve had good friends from my childhood, but not a best friend. It wasn’t until the end of my deployment in Afghanistan that I met a guy who was soon to be my closest best friend. We started talking and realized we had a lot in common. Even when we were 1000 miles away from home, we had a lot of mutual friends and grew up really close to each other. We grew and bonded as close friends with many positive similarities from the relationship rules theory. To be more precise the friendship rule. I’m going to use the friendship rule and†¦show more content†¦It’s important for friends to have similar interest, especially if you’re living together. We always got along and surprising never fought during the time we lived together. The friendship rul e states some behaviors that are essential to having a strong mutually satisfying friendship. Rules for keeping a friendship is standing up for your friends in his or her absence, sharing information and feelings about success, demonstrating emotional support for a friend, trusting and offering to help a friend in need, and trying to make a friend happy when you’re together. I can’t really remember a time I had to stand up for Nate. He was the guy everyone knew and loved. To me it was really cool that I got to be his friend. Emotional support was the easy part. He was going to school to be a counselor, and his job in the army was a chaplain assistant. A lot of people went to talk to him about their problems and he was extremely good at listening and comforting. Though I always had problems talking to people, it was a lot easier talking to him because I know no matter what he wouldn’t judge me. Trust was probably one of the strongest bonds we had as friends. I would trust him with my lie, and easily take a bullet for him. He was always there for me and I always returned the favor. Nate eventually moved down to UCO to attend school. We still stayed close friends and communicated and saw each other whenever we could. Nate had some troubling heart problems where he passed