Importance of Friendship

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Sheri La Meres Suzanne Bunker SP-218 12 Mar. 2012 The Ties That Bind: The Importance of Friendship Once in a blue moon there's that someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life. This best describes the friendship of forty-five years I have with my girlfriend, who means the world to me. As young girls growing up in a small town, proximity played a major role in the development of this relationship. Our families lived within a mile of one another, we both attended the same grade school and our moms participated in the same car pool. This is where it all began, how we instantly became friends. As we entered into middle school, and eventually high school, our similarities, such as church, shared friends, social activities, professional goals and softball, had more of a significant role in the growth of this relationship. Today, our shared activities include a girls night out once a month, aerobic class twice a week and communicating via email and Facebook. I look forward to the day when our schedules lessen and we're able to spend more time together, perhaps even join a softball team. The most memorable shared activity, that will forever bond us, was the experience of sharing our pregnancies, Lamaze classes, baby showers and of course, the birth of two fabulous kids. We have a deep emotional connection. We both experienced profound feelings of loss at a young age with the passing of our fathers and most recently with the death of our mothers, which occurred just one year apart. And even though our hearts were breaking and tears were flowing, no words were necessary, just knowing we had each other was all that we needed. Although I understand that properly handling dialectical tension plays an essential role when managing relationships, and that conflict can occur when two unfavorable

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