No matter what type of patterns you have established for making and maintaining friends, it's always possible to improve your skills as a friend. The key to successful relationships of any kind is to continue to broaden and enhance your skills throughout the course of your life. That is an accurate statement. A good friend is reliable. If you make a commitment to a friend, you should make every effort to keep it.
Friends are also consistent.
Commonalties Friendships often begin because of commonalties that exist between two individuals. These commonalties give people a basis on which to build a rapport and get to know one another. Empathy Empathy is the ability to relate to what someone else is experiencing. Friends are good at empathizing with one another because of the commonalties upon which their relationship is based. One problem that often arises between friends is when one friend expects the other to be empathic, while not having any interest in the other person's life problems.