Defining Relationships Friendship & Dating

In the sequence of the emotional development of the individual, friendships come after parental bonding and before the pair bonding engaged in at the approach of maturity. In the intervening period between the end of early childhood and the onset of full adulthood, friendships are often the most important relationships in the emotional life of the Adolescence|adolescent and are often more intense than relationships later in life. However making friends seems to trouble lots of people; sometimes going years without a single friend can lead to suicide.

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Friends usually will engage in various forms of physical contact, at times spontaneous and other times of a ritualized nature. This is often used as an outward symbol of their friendship. The form and context of the physical contact has varied historically, culturally, and developmentally. In the West, these manifestations, with the exception of the more formal ones, can be seen with greater frequency among young children, opposite sex friends, and among female friends. In the East they are more equally distributed.

Types:-
*Handshakes. This is a more formalized type of contact, frequent among older individuals and only denoting feelings of friendship if emphasized.
*Holding hands
*High five
*Hugging
**Pound hug:- This embrace, primarily used by young males, has become popular among Western subgroups because it expresses affection while maintaining a remote posture, so as to preclude any homosexuality|homosexual connotations.
*Walking arm-in-arm
*Placing an arm over the other's shoulder or waist
*Kissing
*Eskimo kissing
*Imitation of fight (e.g. a punch on the shoulder, most common among young males)

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A friend - A person you know well and regard with affection and trust.
A person with whom you are acquainted.

Friendship:-It is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behaviour between two or more humans.In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, and affection.Yet for many, friendship is nothing more than the trust that someone or something will not harm them. Value that is found in friendships is often the result of a friend demonstrating on a consistent basis:

• the tendency to desire what is best for the other,
• sympathy and empathy,
• honesty, perhaps in situations where it may be difficult for others to speak the truth,
• mutual understanding

Affection:-Is an emotion that derives from the recognition of one's own values in the character of another.

Relationship:-They are social associations, connections, or affiliations between two or more people who may interact overtly, covertly, face to face or may remain effectively unknown to each other such as those in a virtual community who maintain anonymity and do not socialize outside of a chat room.

History of Friendship:

Friendship is considered one of the central human experiences, and has been sanctified by all major religions. The Epic of Gilgamesh , a Babylonian poem that is among the earliest known literary works in history, chronicles in great depth the friendship between [[Gilgamesh]] and [[Enkidu]]. The [[Greek religion|Greco-Roman]] had, as a paramount example, the friendship of [[Orestes]] and [[Pylades]]. The have the story of [[David and Jonathan]]. The Christian Gospels state that [[Jesus Christ]] declared, "No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends."(John 15:13)

Common Type of friendship:-

• Boyfriend Girlfriend
• Friends with benefits
• Online friendship(dating)
• Open relationship
• Sexualized friendship

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