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Maintaining a lifelong friendship isn't easy. In fact, a 2009 Dutch study found that a large majority of friendships only last about seven years. Like any relationship, friendships take work if you want them to last.
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Read More »It’s one thing to say you’ll be friends for life, and it’s another to actually do it. Here’s how you can maintain a lifelong friendship, according to experts. With things like social media and texting, it may not seem like maintaining close friendships should be hard. But as many of us know, that’s far from reality. I recently had dinner with one of my best friends after over a year of making plans and canceling last minute. It became such a thing with us that her boyfriend called us out for being the flakiest people he knew. The truth is, he wasn’t completely wrong. After all, we do live about 10 minutes away from each other. If we weren’t canceling plans for valid reasons, like being super tired or busy, we were open about the fact that we were just too lazy to hang out. If it had been anyone else in the world, that back-and-forth cycle of are we going to get together or not would’ve bothered me…a lot. Nobody has time for that, and my friend would probably say the same. But when you’ve been friends with someone for over 13 years, you make the decision to keep them in your life, no matter what. Once we hit our 10-year friendship anniversary, we came to the conclusion that despite our many flaws, we were probably going to be friends for the rest of our lives. Maintaining a lifelong friendship isn’t easy. In fact, a 2009 Dutch study found that a large majority of friendships only last about seven years. Like any relationship, friendships take work if you want them to last. So we asked a group of experts what they believe is the number one thing that makes friendships last a lifetime. Here’s what they said.
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Read More »“Understand that you both have the power to communicate how you feel in order to come to a compromise,” Harder said. “If you and your bestie both constantly communicate that you are committed to talking everything out and you have the best intentions for each other and the friendship no matter what, then you have the keys for a rocking chair, good-ol’-days-storytelling friendship for life.”
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