Friendships and relationships aren’t always easy. Your friends and lovers aren’t always going to agree with everything you say or think, but that’s a good thing. Hearing someone else’s point of view is the best way to educate yourself and to remind you that you aren’t always right. Besides, loneliness is much worse than compromise. For long, healthy friendships and relationships, these are 10 words to live by.-Self Improvement

1. Trust
If you can’t trust someone, do you really want them to be in your life? Make sure you earn their trust by being open, honest and a good listener and friend.- Self Improvement

2. Honesty
If you are always honest, then you prove you can be trusted. Honesty might be tough sometimes, and though the truth can hurt, knowing it can only make you better and stronger as a person, and a friend.

3. Time
As in, take the time to listen to your friends. Spend time with those you love, and take time out of your busy day to remind them just how much they mean to you.- Self Improvement

4. Forgiveness
Forgiveness has a double benefit: You feel stronger for being the better person, and those who have wronged you feel better knowing that you have been able to forgive their sins. It’s a time tested trait that everyone needs to learn.- Self Improvement

5. Compromise
No one always gets their own way. The ones that do probably don’t actually have any true friends, just hangers-on. A trait of true friendship is understanding that you aren’t always going to get your way, though sometimes you will. Give a little, get a lot.

6. Agree
As in, agree to disagree. Why keep fighting over something that will never be resolved? Get over it, forgive and move in with the knowledge that even through troubled times, you can still make your friendship work.

7. Communication
Communication is essential for understanding what is going on inside someone’s mind. No one knows what you are thinking until you let tell them. Keep the lines of communication open at all times, and you’ll be stronger for it.- Self Improvement

8. Listen
Being a good listener is being able to listen without judging. If a friend needs to get something off their chest, just be there for them, and let them do the talking. When you need the same, they’ll be there for you.

9. Love
Learn to love without prejudice and without guilt. True love sees no borders and knows no boundaries.

10. Learn
Learn from your mistakes in your past. Learn how to love. Learn what makes your friends happy, and learn what it means to truly be a good friend.

There is no greater feeling than being loved and respected by those who surround you. And being a true friend is the gift that keeps on giving. -Self Improvement

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