Most of us depend on the support and help of family and friends to get safely through life. We all need someone with whom we can share secrets, weaknesses, hopes and dreams. Components of friendship include mutual trust, respect, understanding, encouragement and affection.
Friendships are also fragile.
No one is perfect. So, forgiveness and honest apology are important. One writer refers to two kinds of friendship. One, called 'psychic' friendship, relies on the natural affinities, responses and capacities of those involved, including like-mindedness, attraction of opposites and shared interests. Affection found in 'psychic' friendship seeks immediate contact with the other person.