The Faithful Friend

Realationships are important in life. You will need friends and friends will need you. That is why it is important to develop healthy friendships. When you build your life around a few dysfunctional relationships, you will find yourself empty and abandoned at the time when you need friends the most.

This is why it is important not to build your life around "unfaithful" friends. Realize the importance of building strong, health friendships. One characteristic that distinguishes between a healthy and unhealthy friendship is faithfulness. Is the person faithful in his/her friendship with you? Friends are important in the good times and the bad times. Unfaithful friends will be tehre for the good times, but they will abandon you in the bad times. The ultimate test of a true friend is their faithfulness to you in the hard times.

Are you a faithful friend? Faithfulness is an important characteristic for you to be developing in your life. A faithful friend is different from a codependent friend. A faithful friend's actions are based on legitimate concern for the friend, while a codependent's actions are based on a dysfunctional need for that friend. There is a subtle difference in the actions, but the motivations are very distinct.