Friendship: The Laws Of Attraction By Karen Karbo

The Meaning of Friendships In actuality what are friends? Friends are individuals who are there for everything and make life worth living. In the article, “Friendship: The Laws of Attraction”, critic Karen Karbo proclaims friendships possess various correlations and factors which enable lasting relationships. There are many stages in which relationships have to experiences in order to enable it everlasting quality. The evolution from a common stranger to an acquaintance and finally to a best friend status requires many aspects to be developed within the relationships. The necessary components within any relationship consist of self-disclosure, reciprocity, intimacy, intuitive understanding, social-identity support, communication, supportiveness,

But Karen Karbo contends that relationships thrive without much, but all it requires is communication, interaction, and positivity. Nevertheless each relationship has their own blueprint which writes itself. Thus there isn’t a set method in which friendships formulation and retainment; it is all depended on the individuals. Friendships are constantly forming through various methods in which that distinguish each relationship to be unique. Karbo states that the vital connection within any initial relationship is one’s common similarities in which one another share; while the transitions from acquaintance to friendship are possible through the “increase … [in] breadth and depth of self-disclosure” along with the “necessary reciprocity.” The test within the beginning of a budding relationship is a “reciprocal” one. It is necessary for any relationship to take off from the platform. For instant, the relationship between Amber and I connection is our matching schedule, social identity, racial identification, and the understanding of having Asian

Karbo proclaims intimacy breeds “intuitive understanding” which is “established through self- disclosure and reciprocity.” It is this quality within friendships that get friends through think and thins. It is also a quality which money can’t buy or destroy. Within friendships that Karbo states is the quality of “giving and not receiving that makes [people] value a friend more.” Within my friendship it is Amber that “[took] the risk of self-disclosing personal information and then ‘tests’ whether the other reciprocates.” She always the one who explicitly express herself within our relationship, while I the one that who need to know when to act accordingly within various situations. It isn’t like I’m not willing to disclose myself, but there really isn’t much to know about me. Being with Amber for a couple of weeks Amber have me already figure out from what to except and who the real me, while for Amber her family is in a very peculiar situation. Thus, I’m usually the comforting individual within this relationship the ear for which Amber can talk to. Amber’s father is always getting her family through various tribulations with his gambling problem, hence forcing her family to barely hanging on. With Amber being is such a delicate situation I constantly have to be careful with her emotions. The reciprocity of knowing and understanding one another is what really