When being together is no longer pleasant, the friendship comes to an end. It is love for the other for the sake of the other. This is the friendship between those who are happy, fulfilled, or self-realized through the practice of moral and intellectual virtue. Nevertheless, though these friendships do not aim at utility or pleasure, they are accompanied by utility and pleasure. Such friendships are rare and take time.
True friendship is between equals, where each gives the same to the other.
Family relations and relations between ruler and ruled involve inequality. No one would wish for his friend to become God. A man wishes for his friends all of the greatest goods but one, that he be like God. But in a deeper sense for Aristotle, all love of others is based on self-love. It is out of one's own goodness that one wishes well to another who is seen to be good.