It will frequently seem that your RA role will interfere with your friendships. This does not have to be the case. Instead, if you follow these simple ideas and steps, you can avoid the feeling of internal conflict when friendship issues arise. There will come a time when you feel the conflict described above. That s okay.
Life is made up of a variety of emotions.
The question becomes how will you handle the situation. You need to be mentally prepared to deal with friendship conflicts. Being mentally prepared will give you two advantages. For one, your preparedness may help you avoid these situations because you can forecast problems before they happen and therefore be proactive about stopping them. Second, when a problem does occur, you won t feel paralyzed because you will have already had some mental preparation in this area.