Can you remain friends with a person that disagrees with you over issues?

I guess I agree with you. There are fundamental issues which friends should probably agree in which usually helps them in becoming friends. If two people have opposing views on things it is usually a good thing if they can debate and respect one another during a debate. I have a friend who tends to think her way of thinking is the only way to think and it's frustrating when i cannot even get a word in when we are talking and her and I have been friends for a really long time but don't talk as much. She has recently become very religous and tried to push her views on me in a way which made me feel very threatened. It was almost to a point where my way of thinking was completely irrational. So respect when there are differences is the most crucial trait.

I can remain friends is we do not get hot over the issues we disagree with. Also you have to consider what is meant by 'pushing.' I am a Christian and my mentioning the Bible might be considered pushing by some. Also if someone blesses me in the name of Buddha or the goddess Isis, I would not like it that much. So it is usually best to find out what they consider is pushing, so you can disagree amiably. If we both can disagree and not insult each other, that is fine with me as long as we understand that only way one changes their mind is if they are convinced in their hearts.

I like to think that I can agree to disagree with my friends. We all hold differing views on things and it is healthy to be able to have a discussion, disagree, and still remain friends. I am lucky that most of my friends are similar, so we can have animated chats without annimosity

I can be friends with someone of a different opinion unless they try to change my beliefs. I have had friends that I avoided just because they were so controversial all the time. I don't think you have to think alike all the time....and a little disagreement is good once in a while but not all the time.

Hello there. I think I can still be friends (or even good friends) with a person who disagrees me over issues. A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends. For if not, they weren't true friends in the first place. Friendship is not measured by how much we agreed upon but it is measured by how much we managed those we disagreed upon.

I'm married to someone I disagree with over issues! lol. When I met him, he told me he was a hunter. He hunts for deer in the fall. I told him I would never get serious with any man who does that. Well, I did and I still hate that he hunts 23 years later and we STILL get into little squabbles about how can he feel good doing that and he says I don't understand blah blah blah. Anyway, yes, sure I am friends with people who disagree with me over things. I work in pro wrestling and a lot of my friends think I am berserk but that's OK. The key to everything is respecting each other and allowing people to have their own views. I hate when people think they can change my mind by pressuring me or giving me a sermon - on anything. I am a grown woman and pretty set in my ways. I don't sermonize my friends and TRY not to do so with my husband over hunting (Our only big issue). We have agreed to disagree and not talk about it. We agreed when we got married that if/when we had any kids neither of us would influence them one way or the other about hunting and they could decide for themselves whether they wanted to or not. Our sons are 21 and 17 and wouldn't even consider it. They don't dis their father but they have no intentions of hunting. I secretly am sooooo relieved. Anyway, if my friends have issues I don't agree with and vice a versa, as long as we respect one another and don't think we are above the other for our views, I have no problems at all. Not everyone can agree on everything and, in fact, I have learned a lot from people who think differently than me and I hope some have learned from me. I don't argue with my friends. We often don't even go there if an issue is one that makes us uncomfortable but if we do go there, we just talk it out, my views, their views, and usually end up agreeing to disagree and move on.

Yes, you can. I am friends with many people who have different views from myself. I respect their views and I ask them to respect mine. We agree to disagree.

I don't agree on everything with anyone,so i guess that I can, they would really have to have a corrupt personality for me not to, I know a few of them too,lol.

In long term relationsip this disagreement will settle down. When one disagree with other, it is better to listen but keep a little bit distance. Thanks

If that person has nothing to say but to contradict my opinion then I guess I have zero tolerance for him/her. But just like you, if there's a balance between agreeing and disagreeing then it's okay. I don't mind being disagreed on if there's a light shed on the matter. It just shows that we are individual people with similarities and differences.

There has to be some common bond for someone to be your friend, so I suppose it there were some really strong thing you have in common with a friend it wouldn't matter if there were disagreements on issues even if there were quite a few of them. I guess the key is to respect each other's opinions and if there are issues you absolutely can't find any common ground on you have to be able to agree to disagree and stay away from those issues. Myself, I have quite a few friends who don't share my view on some things but what we do share out-weighs what we disagree on. Annie

I think that's just sad if you can't remain friends with someone just because they have different opinions from you. Everyone has their own opinion. I think there are very few opinions that would get me to stop being friends with someone just because they have a different opinion. So yes, I could remain friends with someone who disagrees...as many of my friends and I disagree.

Of course.You can remain friends even if there are things or issues you don't agree with. My closest friend andI have many issues that we always argue about.But that doesn't change our friendship because we always respect each other. We respect each other's ideas and points. If we could not really agree, we just set aside the issue or sometimes just laugh about it.

Personally, I don't like to argue with anyone. If somebody didn't agree with me, I just let it be. I let that person keep his or her opinion. But don't get me wrong, I'm not a push over and I don't accept that opinion for myself that easily. If I didn't agree with that opinion, I usually just keep quiet and I just try to hear his/her side. But we can still be friends. I believe that each person have their own personality and characteristics. I've learned to adjust and accept the people that had become part of my life.

I have some friends that I can't get along, those who disagrees on some issues we talk about. but I also believe that it is natural, since we are different from one another, on beliefs and other topics that deals with day to day issues. As long as the conversations flows smoothly, I don't have a problem in why we should not talk about it!;) A good conversation is like a two-way road, there are ocassions where you go on separate ways and sometimes we cannot avoid to bump at each other!;)

hmm. i had been friends to the person with the people who use to differ from me most of the time. But at the time of difference it felt very bad, i thought i would never talk with them But after some time I was again friend with them.May be it is called friendship where you are friend despite the difference, and again you accept him/her.

I absolutley could be and am friends with people who disagree with me on issues. Sometimes even many issues. As long as the person respects me as a person and respects my right to my own opinion, there is no problem. Even if you disagree about certain issues, you don't have to argue about them. You can focus your frienship on the things you have in common rather than on your differences. I think that's the great thing about having a variety of friends. We learn to see things from more than one perspective.

is this possible.i dont think so.i lost one fellow becos of this problem.too useless to talk to such people with ego and lots of blah blah!~

Yes, i am always a friend to anybody. Whether we are of opposite opinion on some issues. It is a simple thing for me and should not affects our friendship. I don't make or consider it as a big deal at all. Disagreement is common because we are all rational animals and thinking differently.