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?