Being on time shows our friend that we appreciate the time they take from their busy schedules to spend with us. Be sensitive to our friend's family needs and feelings. When our friend's husband needs her, we can postpone an outing without being hurt and making her feel torn between loyalties. Forgiving and asking forgiveness keeps us from accumulating hurts that poison our relationship with bitterness. A healthy sense of humor is indispensable.
Laughter is good medicine for strong friendships.
Sometimes I've held back from developing friendships, fearing that as soon as I had a friend, we would have to move. However, I've learned that even brief friendships have never been wasted. Even if the new friend won't write when we are separated, we are both richer for the friendship that we had. If I hold back, refusing to allow myself to get close, we both lose. On several occasions I waited so long that we only had a few brief weeks to get to know each other when it could have been months.