How do you decide which friendships to keep?

Friendship is simple. True friends stay with you till the end no matter what. They love you for what you are, they love your weaknesses and they dont mind if you are crazy sometimes.

It's really tough to figure out. I lost all my childhood friends over stupid things, and although i was angry for years, i eventually was the bigger person and messaged them. And i found out that they too, were trying to find a good time to message me. So i talked to them, individually, and although were not "friends" now, we at least talk on social media and when we see one another places, and support one another. Which is a good step. However there is one old childhood friend of over 10 years that i stopped being friends with about 5-7 years ago, over our boyfriends butting heads and saying rude things about the other. Then about 2 years ago her and i finally talked, and both apologized for them, plus for us stopping the friendship, and we hung out at least once. Plus saw one another at the stores and my cousins as her sister lives next door to my cousin, and She got pregnant by her new bf and i was the first she told, and would be the auntie, but then she got angry at something that was supposed to be funny, and stopped talking to me again. So obviously that was a bust. Would be alot better if we could see even a little of our futures. Goodluck babe! Whatever you decide.

for me, friendship will just come along. no need to put it to a package and say, here we are friends, i think it grows naturally as they say. and even if there is a problem eventually it will heal by time and seeing each other again will spark the friendship back. if not... this is not really friendship at all.

Only the ones who have respect for you. Without respect, there is nothing. Glad to be back here and have you as a friend on here once again. Hope everything is going okay for you there Cait.

I think friends are family we choose, but we cant really be calculative. Anyone who helps you feel secure, who comforts your soul, helps you to be a better person is sure to keep, even if in past things have been bad, start a fresh. Our heart really knows whom to keep and whom to let go. Have a conversation with your heart, and you will find the answer, surely.

Depends on your needs, if you have a need to patch things up with that friend, and it will successfully continue on being a good friendship, I say do it. Otherwise let it all behind where it has to be.

Many times unless it stems way back, there are many I would consider so called friends, and I know I am better off without them.

@skydream I was friends with this one person and then we lost touch and then we reconnected on facebook and then we fought and it was not good and then we connected again and she really turned on me so that was that and I will never ever be friends with someone like that. They show their true colors and you can see right through them and they are not a friend.

Well I also have friends before and we are group of five and then now we don't keep in touch with each other and become strangers.It is because of severe misunderstanding that we had in the past.

Am a kind of person that doesn't force myself on people but if I find myself in a friendship with someone I really like I will try as much as possible to make things work between us but if He/she treat me like a nobody then I will let go and never look back

Well I think friendship remains while that friend get involved more and more in your life, and such circumstances when both are involucred, make friendship stronger. What you share with your friends is what you always will keep close to them.

Having friends is good in our life but if you wanna have a long friendship you have to limit the time you spend,talk and go out that we make you keep friend not to get into friend....