Leaving high and dry

I would never leave my friends. Friends watch out for one another and they stick up for each other. True friends are those who are there when you need them the most. They are there to lend a hand or an ear and at times a heart. We can give all the advice we want to them if they don't take them that is their choice. Let them make their own mistakes but be there to catch her. Lend her a shoulder to cry on like you said. We all make mistakes because we are human beings. What we can do after they make their mistake is to help them not to make them again.

I do not think that it is fair to leave your friend who is in trouble. Infat the true friend is the friend that supports a friend who is trouble. That is the time your friend needs you and at that time you have to show the worth of your friendship and give support so that your friend can come out of the tough times. I fully agree with you that the friendship is tested through hard times and not just in pleasent weather. One more thing I agree with you is that we have to support them by advising and trying to modify their actions somehow if we feel that the friend is doing wrong thing, but even after that also if the friend is falling we should be there to catch him/her. That is the true friendship.

I'd like to think I'm a good friend. I usually try to stick with them through the good and the bad and be there as support. I can try to help and give my own opinion. Whether or not they agree is another story. I agree. Sometimes personal experience is the way to go as far as if it's the right move or not.

You know katkat, if more people thought like you, this would be a better world. Yes, friendship is tested through hard times not just in pleasant weather...and the same goes for marriage. I think people should start out as friends first before they get married, unfortunately most people don't...if you can make it through the hard times when you're friends and treat each other with respect and dignity, the marriage should make it also.

Yes,you are completely true.There is no point of leaving them.That would be unfair with them if we leave them just because they aren't agree with us.The same is applicable for us too as we too are not agree with them.They too can leave us.Then how would we feel..?same will happen with them too..so atleast a friend should not do this... -AV

I never leave friends in the thick of it, no matter how badly they treat me. I have the heart of a lion and use it! It has caused me a lot of stress over the years, but a friend is a friend no matter what. If I can't take the abuse (and neither should I), then I ditch the friendship as they weren't a friend to begin with.

I agree with you the best friends of are those who are there for you through thick and thin and most of all don't judge you, I like to think of myself as being one there for my friends.