Reflection About Friendship

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The acronym B.F.F. means best friends forever and I honestly believed that my friend Emily and I would be. Our friendship was very strong and the key word in that sentence is “was” because we no longer acknowledge each other 's existence. This paper gave me the perfect opportunity to reflect upon the friendship and use the communication skills I have learned to pick out piece by piece what went wrong.
I had known Emily since I had been in preschool, but we went different paths when we were split up for elementary and middle school. Gossip floats throughout different schools and Emily had been someone that everyone talked about as the dark emo kid. As high school came around I noticed a complete change in Emily. Instead of the dark and broody girl I had once known, she changed into a very involved church goer. Initially what drew me towards our friendship was because of the similarity within religions. The text states that, “Similar values about politics and religion are the best predictors of …show more content…

We still went to the same high school, we were still in the same friend group and we still went to the same bible study, but what had changed was the tension people could feel between us. To manage this tension we decided to agree to disagree by using integration with our relationship.(Adler R, Rosenfeld L, Proctor II L,pg 289) This technique worked for a while because we were able to be around each other and only talk about what was happening in our present lives instead of talking about what had happened with our past relationship. This strategy continued until her boyfriend and she broke up, which ultimately changed the dynamic of our entire friend group. People started to take sides and since I was good friends with her boyfriend too, I choose to cut ties with her and focus on her ex boyfriend 's and mine

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