What is the difference between associates and friends

What does she do for a living? Does she wear frontals or are those her real edges? Do you know anything about this bih? It seems as though acceptance and fitting into a group has become the supreme mission these days. Being friends with strangers for the sake of having friends. If you go out and have a few too many drinks, your real friend will make sure that you are OK and get home safely.

An associate feels no responsibility for you and may leave you to your own devices. If your car breaks down, your real friend will come to your rescue.

An associate is unconcerned. If he or she is able, your real friend will help you get to the next level. If she can help you find a new job, she will.

An associate is not trying to help you out. It needs good and bad times how they handle each often reveals their true character. You need to observe them pay attention to how they treat other people. By getting to know people and establishing a foundation you can better determine if they are a body moving friend or a news watching associate. I encourage all ladies who are serious about self-care to go on The Happy Finances Challenge.

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This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. I thought it was funny because I look like a bratz doll. What's in Indy? Complete co-signage to this entire post. My core group of friends is currently all over the country, but whenever one of us is in town, we MAKE time for each other, since we don't know when we'll see each other again.

And the leaving someone in your house alone thing is so real. I find myself doing a lot of "yea, that's my friend…actually, we're cool. My friends are like family to me, everybody else gets put in the cool category. My recent post My poetry portfolio is officially done! Time to cast the net and….

I'm not too social, so when I call someone my friend, I really mean it. I will say that it sucks though, because I don't know how to make friends and I'd like to add a couple of more women friends into my circle, but I think I've pretty much grown out of that phase and at this point it would be weird.

Mika I don't think wanting friends and making friends at any age is "weird". I don't think your ever too old to surround yourself with good people who help you be better and are a great support system. We were not designed and create to be alone in this world.

We all Need each other to survive. Good friendships are important to have, especially to women since we're such emotional creatures. The key is as you get older and your life changes finding friends who mean you well and who will be true friends in every sense of the word.

Unlike when we're kids, when we pick friends based on who we like playing with and who we have the most fun with, we have to be more careful once we're grown. You just have to be a good judge of character and make sure the folks you bring into your life and your circle are good to you and good for you. It took me some years and a few tears along the way to understand the difference between those two terms.

The people I regarded as 'friends' were really associates, and vice versa. I believe that my naivete had a huge role to play in my shot selection early on, but today I use a bit of a guage to determine who is who and what role they play in my life.

I honestly believe that I have a plethora of great associates, but only a few great friends, and really I am okay with that. I'd rather be able to manage a few rather than claim to have a bunch.

The challenge now is being the same friend to them that they are to me…. Man it would be weird if you thought about how many people you've dated in the past who were really your friends. I think the term gets used too often. I always take an approach to being friends with someone before we date, but it's some out there who I only went after for "other things.

Hmmm…well I'm the kind of person who loves to host events at my house and if I meet you and you seem cool and not crazy, then I will keep in touch, make an effort to get to know you, invite you to my house parties.

Are you my "friend? I guess not in the conventional sense but I believe that people like to feel loved and appreciated, be fed and have a good time. And I think it can be exhausting when you start categorizing, labeling, putting folks in boxes and squares.

Instead, it's more like a large circle with people on the peripheral, then smaller circles that indicate varying levels of trust and intimacy. But "real", ride or die friends are a rare thing. There's a part in this Diane McKinney Whetstone book where this dude asks, "You got anybody laying down for you? You got a living bridge?

But I know who they are. That I can always call. And they will always help me get to the other side. Before I read this I must say that I giggled upon reading the title, seeing the picture of TLC and turning on the music station on my tv. It's currently playing their single "What About Your Friends". Diana that book is called Trading Dreams at Midnight. Great read. I've read that and Tumbling. I like her work. I absolutely love her writing! Tumbling is awesome.

Blues Dancing is my 2nd favorite of hers. Definitely not one to use the word "friend" loosely, but sometimes there just isn't a word to describe someone. And I don't force it with anyone on some "BFF" shit.

I know who my niggas are and they know I have their back the same. My recent post Why no one should marry a nigga like Kris Humphries. Honestly this is one of the most popular debates of our generation.

As we immerse ourselves deeper into the craze of technology, information is so easily accessed literally at our fingertips that people find themselves accidentally 'creeping'. The most fascinating thing to a small minded individual is gossip. Not to say that facebook is for the small minded at all, because as we all know almost everyone has a facebook dead or alive. But what i do believe is that the information overload causes people to misconstrue relationships. There is a 'view friendship' tab available that lines up an array of all photos tagged of you and whichever "friend" you choose to display.

Tags for "friends", oh, like name tags? I have been in situations with my male friends where they have literally gone on facebook in front of me and added my 'friends' because they were 'cute' and it was just that easy.

A girlfriend of mine just got into a new relationship. Meanwhile, her new boyfriend is panicking about tweets, worried sick that he "wifed a hoe". If twitter has the power to break your relationship how deep can the ties possibly be? I'm a 90s baby, so i suppose im young but i remember a time when it was much harder to get in contact with my homies.

Dial up internet took forever, tied up the phone lines, and didn't even always work. To avoid rambling and get to the point, my little siblings don't necessarily have those memories. The younger two have always lived in a world where those awesome computers in our pockets solve daily problems.

The ease of technology as well as the inherent and natural human thirst for knowledge by way of information are the roots of the problem at hand, in my opinion. Side note: Freshwithdepth inspired this response. I'm a sophomore English major at Howard and got a little too excited about what you were saying and thus followed you on twitter, which actually contradicts everything i just said. Swear i'm not a creep at all and will harbor no negative feelings towards you if you don't accept.

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