Good & Healthy Relationship Advice & Tips

God created us social beings and inside us are places where only friends can reach. This means you will need friends in all stages in your life - infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood.

You will also surely need friends in your relationship because a relationship can’t give you everything while a network of friends will give you different support systems.

Importance of friends

A friend is an intimate acquaintance, a well-wisher or supporter. Good friends will admonish you and give you good counsel. They will love you at all times and tell you the truth even when a brother appears an enemy. 

If you have good friends to talk to relationship problems get less. Every relationship, therefore, needs a cheer-leader, friends who make you feel better and support you. 

Good friends will support you in every area of your personal growth even when they come in different forms – among singles, couples and opposite sex but one significant type is friendship among women.

The good of friendship among women

Friendship is vital to women especially to those in a relationship. This is because women have great emotional fulfillment sharing and discussing relationship issues with friends. They offer and receive help in anything that promotes personal and relationship growth. 

Women, therefore, sustain a network of close friends bonded by mutual self-disclosure and empathy to keep a support system. They see themselves as a network of connections.

Women talk and share freely with their friends in the spirit of co-operation to nurture their feminine spirit. As they associate and give freely with their female friends, women boost their energy and participate in each other’s emotions and share experiences which they believe only women can understand. 

They give advice and suggestions. Through talking and being heard women feel nurtured and their burdens nurtured. Friendship among women buffers them against stress. 

The more love and support women receive from their female friends the less demanding they will be on their male lovers to fulfill all their emotional needs.

The challenge of friendship among women

For women telling secrets about their relationship is an essential part of friendship. Some women think good friends must share all secrets and some find it uncomfortable when they have no secrets to share. 

The problem is that women tend to develop feelings of low-self-esteem and insecurity. They also tend to be jealous and feel envious to see friends doing well in their relationship. 

Some sabotage relationships of their friends by criticism and gossip to damage the reputation of friends in good relationships. Some try to take over the lovers of their close friends for their personal benefits.

The advice

Friendship is a gift you give to yourself in a relationship because good friends will support you at all times. You must, therefore, keep making new friends and keeping the old ones. Always remember friends have great impact on your lifestyle and relationship.

Avoid having friends who insist on spending time with you when you must be with your lover, or those who constantly critisise your lover or demand that you tell them intimate details of your relationship. 

You must also avoid friends who advise that you cheat to spice up your relationship or exploit your lover for personal benefits.  Instead, keep friends who are mentors and can influence you positively with their godly lives. 

Women who are rich in friendship enjoy better physical and mental health. 

Keep only friends who believe in you, support you and share in your relationship dreams. 

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