Friendship and Love are two different relationships interconnected with each other. In a friendship both friends should have love (affection) for one another while in love, the two must share mutual understanding of a friendship. Usually people avoid to mixing up friendship and love through a thin line known as friendship limits, they say love and friendship have basic difference in terms of characteristics of a relationship like

• In friendship you care for your friends, in love you loves him/ her too much.
• In friendship you are an open book to your friend, in love you may have some secrets, perhaps related to your history.
• In friendship you don’t shy to tell everything to your friend because of their confidence in you, in love you want to categories things in two classes, personal and to be shared with lover.
• Friendship is a truly platonic relationship except in case of friends with benefit, love includes sex necessarily. There are only handful examples of platonic love in history.
• In friendship you can share your friends with lovers, love does not allow you to share your lover with friends.
• In friendship you are there when you are required by your friend, in love you always reside in his/ her mind regardless you are there or not in front of him/ her.
• In friendship you try to comforting your friend, if he/ she cries, in love you start to cry with them if he/ she cries.
• In friendship both of you are two souls in two different bodies, in love you becomes one soul in two different bodies.
• Friendship allows you to have more friends at same time, in love you are not expected to have two or more lovers at the moment.
• In friendship you may open your eyes, ears and mind despite having full confidence in your friend, in love it is must to restrict all thoughts against your lover despite they are there with solid clues.

Friendship is a faith between two individuals. It takes years to mature and few seconds to break. You can see it growing with the time but you can’t observe it breaking. Many friendships are broken due to lack of trust for friends. You will get uncounted tips on how to be a true friend or how to get a best friend or how to get good friendship, etc. All of these articles can’t help you if you can’t recognise the breaking points of your friendship. To maintain a friendship you will also focus your concentration on breaking signs of a friendship in order to save your friendship.

You feel uncomfortable with one another
Two good friends can not feel uneasy with each other until they don’t have any conflict on a topic. You will start to feel uneasy in your friend’s company as if you want to avoid their closeness completely. The situation becomes worse if your friend also feel the same for you. You can overcome this situation by conversation. Both of you should sit in a silent place to resolve issues on which you have disputes.

You have nothing to say to each another
In friendship it is hard to stay silent. While two good friends meet they start to chat on various topics including life, career, education, family, friends, social issues, love, sex, society, etc. There is no reason to sit quietly in a friend’s company. If both of you feel the opposite, this is a red flag for your friendship that should be cut off immediately.

You can’t trust on your friend
Trust is what strengthens a relationship. Without faith nobody can survive in a relationship. Probably your friend did something to hurt your feelings intentionally but a true friend will try to know the reason of this unusual behavior. If you can’t trust an individual, you can’t be his/ her friend for a longer time.

Frequent misunderstanding
Understanding builds bridge between two people and misunderstanding breaks it. In a would be broken friendship misunderstanding becomes more frequent than routine. Both friends start to avoid understanding other person’s feelings. Verbal fighting becomes more usual and the bridge of understanding breaks because of lack of communication. You can improve this by having mutual understanding else this is a sign of broken friendship.

If you are experiencing any of above, it’s time to reconsider your friendship. Here you have two options, (i) dissolve all disputes with personal discussion and mutual understanding or (ii) finish your friendship; that you can decide by answering yourself of these questions.

• Would you consider your friend to call in a personal emergency?
• Would you go out for a personal timeout with your friend?
• Do you believe your friend will agree to sort out all misunderstanding with you?
• Are you attracted to him/ her despite experiencing all of above things?

• Be You. You have two choices of being you or being real you or fake you. Being real you is the key to strengthen a relationship while fake you leads to broken relations.
• Be friend. Friendship demands one or more friends in a relationship. Until anyone of both is a friend, friendship would survive afterwards there will be no friendship.
• Be loyal. Loyalty is an essential in all relationship regardless they are platonic or not. Loyalty weaves emotions with trust to make a better friendship so be loyal.
• Understand your friend. Everybody is different from others. Your friends may have different nature, interests, hobbies and friends those you don’t like. You should understand their personal needs as well their emotions to share a mature friendship with your friend.
• Be close. Friendship is more than company of two or more individuals. It includes emotions, mutual understanding, nearness of heart. Let be close to your friend to have better emotional nearness.
• Be available. Life is tough nobody knows when he will have to suffer what. You should be available that time with your friend to show you are with them.
• Let listen them. Art of speaking is good but listening is better than good. Let listen your friend if they have something to say to you.
• Be positive. Positivism is human magnet. It attracts more peoples towards you even though you don’t know them but people love to be close to someone who can show the path of affirmation.
• Let be honest. Honesty is not limited to be honest in your action it encompasses your emotions, thoughts too. If you are not agree with your friend’s action you should convey your message clearly instead false praising. Probably they may be angry so keep it simple and sweet.
• Provide them space. Space a relationship with comfortable space is more flexible and strong than a friendship without space. Provide enough space to your friend to explore their personalities. In return you will also find the same.
• Respect your friends. Respect brings respect and good relations. Be respectful to your friends whether both of you don’t share common interests, hobbies or passions.
• Support them. Friends expect to hear cheers while they win when they lose they want to share grief with friends too. Be supportive in every season to cry and laugh with them.
• Appreciate them. Your appreciation can make their life. Whenever they receive achievements appreciate them for higher achievement even though they are not successful you should motivate them to make more efforts.

Men and women represent two different circles of thoughts in terms of gender specific issues. Often people try to find their friends in a member of opposite sex. It is assumed that two person of opposite sex can’t be good friend, they will share a romantic relationship or they will not carry on their friendship for a long time due to natural reasons like physical attraction, jealousy, romantic interest, etc. Though these start with friendship and you can eliminate them to make a forever friendship with someone of opposite sex.

Ask yourself. What you are looking for in your friends of opposite sex, should be first question before starting your friendship. There may be multiple replies like you are in search of a good friend, you are looking for romance or you want to try them just as a try. If you are looking for a friend rather than love interest, you will succeed in your relationship.

Communication is the key. Communication is what that will give you friends. Communication is not only a tool to start your new friendship but it is a tool to maintain also. Therefore communication should be perfect especially while you are interested to start friendship with a member of opposite sex.

Define your friendship. In a friendship between opposite sexes individuals have to struggle with some typical question raised from personal attraction and emotion feelings. It would be better that you clear it in the beginning instead waiting for right moment. This will help you to maintain your friendship life long.

Set your limits. In a friendship with opposite sex often limits get blurred because of hormonal effects. You may take examples of ‘Friends with Benefit’ in which friends find themselves in a dilemma to accept or not their relationship more than just friends. Setting limits can help you to avoid any misunderstanding, presumptions and risks of romance in a friendship.

Control your emotions. Emotions play driver’s role in a relationship whether it is a family relation, friends or other kinds of relationship. While anyone of opposite sex friends start to romance/ flirt with another person, another one might feel jealously. This happens due to we can’t control our emotions and start to guide friends as per our own views rather than accepting their independence.

Ignore sexual attraction. Sexual attraction is the weirdest thing in a friendship of opposite sex, if they can’t become good lovers. Meanwhile you might lose your friend as well as faith in friendship and romance because of you. As it is natural, our body works silently and sometimes we have to struggle with unwanted attraction to our friend of opposite sex. You can minimize it just by avoiding physical contacts. Limit your hugs, physical touch in a comfort zone. If either one don’t feel it comfortable you should react properly.

Tips for Friendship with Opposite Sex

1. Honesty is the first foundation of any relationship. Be honest in your friendship.
2. Friendship between opposite sexes demands a borderline so you can taste fruit of real friendship.
3. Don’t flirt with each another. Flirt can distract your relationship in many aspects, as it is a hint for more than jus friends meanwhile it can communicate wrong message for you in other friends including your marriage partners.
4. Don’t go with your friend on dating places lonely. If it is essential, try to keep yourself away from people’s eyes else you might be rumored as a romantic couple instead good friends.
5. Avoid physical intimacy whether you are best friends. It might be turned into a threat to your friendship as both of you can feel need of physical relation.
6. If anyone of you is married/ engaged, don’t interfere in his/ her married or engaged life as it will result in a troubled life and broken friendship.
7. Introduce your friends to your partner but don’t allow jealously between them. Pay more attention to your partner than your friend and encourage your friend to do the same.
8. Similarly if anyone of you wants to get more intimate with other friend to start romance into friendship, you should avoid it until both of you are not comfortable with the idea. This might resulted in a broken friendship.

There is a saying, “Friendship starts with two unknown individuals, matures through their disputes and finishes with one soul in two distinct bodies.” Friendship is grown up through joint efforts and mutual understanding of both friends. Of course they may have similar views as well disputes despite having respects for one another’s views. Usually their disputes are resolved but sometimes may be not. At the moment disputes can turn them into two rivals the worst condition in a relationship. Let read how you can avoid such disputes to become a barrier in your friendship.

1. Listen you friend carefully. Often dispute arises because friends don’t listen to each another. Both of them want to express their own views rather than hearing another first. May be your friend is wrong but you should hear their voice so you can select appropriate words to communicate your thoughts in their own languages.
2. Show your respect to your friend’s thoughts. You should pay your respect to them even you don’t support them by heart. You must show them you care and you understand them better than other peoples. It will take nothing of you but will give you their trust so they can listen to you.
3. Think before speak. Every word is important in a friendship. What you speak affects your friend unless they are not a jerk. Friends are living beings and you should react accordingly. You should speak in their languages. If they are unsatisfied with your reply you should start it like you agree with them thereafter step by step you can make them understand what you want to say. Later or sooner they will feel their mistakes to join your thoughts.
4. Give them their time. It is a normal practice people takes time to understand other people’s ideas. Your friend is not an exception, they need their time too. It may be shorter or longer depending on your friend’s personal choices and circumstances.
5. Spend some personal time with friends. Though this does not help to resolve your disputes it will strengthen your friendship to minimise worse effect of a dispute. Moreover it brings you closer so you can discuss on the topic to resolve it.
6. Ask a common friend to suggest you. If your dispute does not resolve despite all of above efforts, you should ask trustworthy common friend to advice you since it is a good method to get a quick solution of problems. Alternatively you may assign a third party to solve your dispute with your friend’s mutual understanding.
7. Have patience. If your friend is not agreeing on point number 6 the only thing you can do is have patience in case you don’t want to lose your friends with regular efforts to sort out problems in your friendship.

Friendship is a relationship based on faith, affection, mutual understanding and respect which you can’t find from everyone. True friendship can’t stand on fake behavior. It requires true love, respect for each other without that you can’t expect a life-long friendship. Two or more individuals who don’t share same personality, nature, interests or job professions may be good friend but there are some more factors that can affect your friendship in a negative or positive way.

You don’t understand each another
To understand each another is the first thing to begin a new relation that must not be avoided in friendship. In a friendship it is expected that a person should read his/ her friend’s mind so he/ she can react accordingly in order to support their friends. If anyone of two friends doesn’t try to understand his/ her friend, friendship will not survive long enough.

One of two friends has sucking nature
Friendship grows with the help of selfless love. Unfortunately sometimes you have to deal with rough, selfish guys who can’t enjoy your happiness or progress. Sometimes you may have to get a sucking friend enough to boring you. They may be rude, unfaithful guys who can’t follow principles of friendship for a long time. This is also a reason for friendship breaking.

Your friend hurts you
If they are hurting you or making secret plans to bring disasters for you, they can’t fulfill their duty as a friend and you have to break-up with them later or sooner. Such friend must be treated as frenemies so you can be aware to minimize your personal loss. If you have these types of friends, you should proceed for break-up at the earliest.

Both of you are in romance with each another
It’s a symptom for future break-ups between the friends. Friends can go beyond the friendship and do romance if they are capable to fulfill their responsibilities as a friend and a lover. Unluckily it happens rarely and two good friends loss their friendship as well as their new romantic relationship.

Friends with benefits
Friend with benefits is a double win offer in which you can enjoy with both hands until you do not have emotional attachment in your sexual relationship. According to a study friend with benefits can’t be followed for a long time because of getting emotional touch and your friendship converts into romance subsequently you start to feel trouble into maintaining your friendship.

If you are dealing with any of above friendship problems, it is time to analyze your relationship as soon as possible. It might be a turning point of your life where you can either move on to further life or be trapped in friendship crisis. You can get rid from these friends by using several techniques.

“What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.” ~ Aristotle

Friendship is divine. There you don’t expect for rewards for your good actions but tries to do with selflessness. Eventually your friendship becomes stronger, emotional and intimate with your good friendship karmas. However as a friend you do whatever you like to do but there are some more things which you can do as a best friend. These things lead you to have a better friendship and to be a best friend. Here is the list.

1. Welcome your friend. Friends visit home due to several reasons for personal work, to help you, to play with you, to go for shopping, to do study, to be naughty and so on. Thus whenever friend come at your home, welcome them.
2. Have proper communication. Communication is the first and last point of a relationship so it should be maintained. Maintain a regular communication whether it is through personal meeting, phone, mobile, letter, email or chatting. It will keep you update about your friend’s latest updates if he is happy or not.
3. Ask them. Everybody has to suffer some pain in his/ her life. Ask your friend if they are in problems. You can offer your help them to get rid of their problems, if you are capable.
4. Share your friends with each other. Definitely there are some common friend of both of you and your friend as well as other friend. If they are from one field you should introduced them with your best friends so they can be benefited with each other.
5. Celebrate friend’s success. Usually people don’t like to cheers for other’s success but as a friend you should celebrate their success with full contentment.
6. Throw a party. It happens rarely that we have a party for others but while it is our friend, we should manage a party to make his/ her mood. Not necessarily it should be large, your party may be less as little as a cup of coffee, it is just to show your emotional feelings rather than showing your money power.
7. Offer your help. Perhaps the God does not need a help but human requires. Your friend may have your need in his/ her bad time where you can help them. Besides them whenever you can help them, offer your hands to them.
8. Spend some personal time with friends. In friendship, we avoid spending personal time especially in old friendship which is most essential. You should spend some quality time with your friends. It deepens harmony in your relationship to make it more strengthen and faithful.
9. Advice your friends. Guiding is something like instructing and peoples ignore it. However, you can help your friends by giving your guidance and suggestion to them so they can overcome from the critical situations as well as getting solution of their problems.
10. Visit your friend. Sometimes they can’t visit you because of their busy schedule, that time you should visit them, as it is an effort to keep in touch with them. There you can discuss about the latest or you can ask them for help whatever the conditions are.

If your friend is gaining weight and looks fatty, it’s your turn to show him/ her right path. May be your friend is unable to control his/ her obesity or fondness of eating. They may also be a victim of emotional eating, depression or eating disorder. This is the time when you should guide them to control their fatness so they can look fit, fine, sexy in their healthy figure. Here is a bunch of ten tips by which you can support your friend to lose weight efficiently.

1. Be gentle. Firstly be nice for them and stop to criticize for too much eating or fatness. Perhaps they are aware about the fact and don’t require any suggestion regarding their fatness. Express your worry and care for their health as well as health problems of obesity so they can accept your suggestion positively.
2. Find if they are angry, depressed or hurt. Usually people avoid taking care of themselves if they are angry, depressed or hurt. That time they start to avoid all health precautions including proper eating. They either start to eat much more or use alcohol, drugs and pills. Both are responsible for health disasters like an ultra slim body or super rounded belly along with several other problems. You have to understand their mental state before starting your efforts so you can succeed.
3. Don’t nag them. If your friends cannot do proper dieting, don’t make their fun. Nevertheless, you should motivate your friends to eat balanced diet rather then dieting even if they deny your suggestions you should not hound them for being a fat man/ woman.
4. Help them. Sometimes fat peoples want to get sympathy and assistance of their close friends. Your friend may also need of your help, you can motivate them through offering your help.
5. Support them mentally, emotionally and psychologically. In most cases fatness is caused due to depression or stress. In such conditions you can help your friend to provide psychological guidance.
6. Work together. Your friend may be a lazy or shy person who doesn’t want to do exercises in a gym. Let join a gym, aerobic class with him/ her to eliminate their shyness. It will benefit both of you to gain a fit, healthy and sexy figure.
7. Be a role model. You can’t encourage your friend until you don’t show them benefits of a fit body which you can do by being his/ her role model. Follow a proper diet schedule to inspire them positively instead criticizing them.
8. Get professional’s help. If your friend is feeling incapable to control his/ her obesity, you should get professional’s help to encourage them. Probably they are struggling with typical side effects of medication like diabetes, blood pressure, etc.
9. Do jogging/ morning walk with your friend. A fifteen-minute’s morning walk is much effective than dieting pills to lose weight. It also keeps away other health problems too like diabetes, blood pressure, heart problems, tiredness, etc.
10. Motivate them. In Google you can find dozens of examples who regained their attractive figure within couple of weeks, tell their stories to your friend. These examples will help them to become prepare mentally.

Sometimes we have to combat with frenemies or some uninvited friends with whom we don’t want to share a friendship. You may exclude them from your friend circles easily on Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus account but in real life you will be required some extra tips to ignore them completely. Follow these steps and get rid from unwelcome friends.

Ask Yourself. Ignoring a friend may be good or bad depending on the individuals and situations. It may hurt your friends, hence you should ask yourself if it is the last alternate. If you can resolve the problems with the person who you want to ignore, try just once more. If they are invulnerable to maintain further friendship, follow the procedure strictly.

Find the reasons. Before starting to ignore a friend we should try to know the hidden motives of their action instead of taking strict decision immediately. It may be a personal or emotional problem in which he/ she requires your help. Besides it, this will also help you to create a base for your firm decision to maintain or decline the friendship. If there is nothing to take care, problem may be in themselves too, just start your steps to make get out them from your life forever.

Block them in your online social contacts. Definitely they will be in your online friend’s list on various social websites including Facebook, Twitter, Google+. You should block them to make your first effort to breach your friendship and give them hint indirectly that you did this intentionally.

Be Direct. First of all, we should understand that to break a friendship you have no need to be rude or rough as you can do it smoothly with a few behaviour tips. Talk them directly and say politely with respect that now you want to break the friendship relation with them. Initially they deny it and will try to contact you in several manners such as phone calls, email, through third person or common friends etc. Be clear and stop to entertain their phones, email messages along with blocking them in chat application of online websites. They may react in worst ways like making rude comments, ill speaking, etc. but be firm and refuse all efforts in a polite manner.

Be rough. Some peoples would not allow you to live alone, therefore they become tougher task to accomplish. Be a just little rough and fight them on very small issues but don’t forget to abuse them. It will work like a miracle and they will cut all their relations with you immediately forever. However, this step should not be used at every time with every guy.

Erase his/ her name from your heart. Although all above steps are enough to break a friendship but sometimes it does not work for long time especially while they have a soft corner in your heart. They may refuse to accept it in order to make new efforts for beginning of a new friendship, therefore you should cut all the communication with them whether it is personal, electronic or by third person.

Avoid social & personal etiquettes. Whenever you meet with such friends you should ignore etiquettes to show your unlikeness to them else they would understand it as a positive signal to start communication as a friend.

Change your schedule. Changing your routine schedule can help you if the targeted friend is your colleague, student or dance partner. Manage your schedule in such way that you can avoid all possibilities to meet them face to face. Even if you meet with each another accidentally don’t make eye contact with the targeted friend.

Keep yourself busy. You may join new friends, projects, hobbies or with other activities. This will fade up their memories stored in your mind so you can enjoy the freedom of a friendship made by mistake.