{"id":69,"date":"2013-07-21T19:43:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T23:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.facetofacetherapy.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2018-04-02T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T20:03:17","slug":"friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.facetofacetherapy.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/21\/friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking about friendship today and what it means to be a friend.\u00a0 I have found myself a lot of the times, being in the position where I am a better friend than people are to me.\u00a0 I have never really given thought to the idea on how many friends I need, I have always had enough love and support from those around me.<\/p>\n<p>I have a few people in my life that are my primary support, mainly my husband and my family.\u00a0 I did a great thing and married my best friend.\u00a0 Well, he was not my best friend when I met him but he is now and he counts as the number one friend in my life.\u00a0 When I am upset, sad, happy, etc he is the one I tell first.\u00a0 Score for us for being that compatible that I feel that way about him.\u00a0 Does that mean that I am missing out on other friendships?\u00a0 Both my parents are next in line to tell when I have news to share, then my brother, then my friends.\u00a0 As a parent I have to always think of how my girls look at the world and if I am giving them everything they need.\u00a0 Do I need to have multiple friends for them to have people to play with?\u00a0 What does it mean to be a friend?\u00a0 To me, there is only one way to be a friend and that is all in, I cannot do superficial or just online friends.\u00a0 Not sure why but maybe it is because I am confident in myself that I do not need to be surrounded by a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>I want the best for my girls and I know that I am their primary role model for now and I want to show them how to have friendships that last and make them the best they can be.<\/p>\n<p>How do you define friendship?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking about friendship today and what it means to be a friend.\u00a0 I have found myself a lot of the times, being in the position where I am a better friend than people are to me.\u00a0 I have never really given thought to the idea on how many friends I need, I&#8230;<br \/> <a class=\"read-more magicmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facetofacetherapy.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/21\/friendship\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-friendship"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Friendship - Face to Face Therapy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facetofacetherapy.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/21\/friendship\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Friendship - Face to Face Therapy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have been thinking about friendship today and what it means to be a friend.\u00a0 I have found myself a lot of the times, being in the position where I am a better friend than people are to me.\u00a0 I have never really given thought to the idea on how many friends I need, I... 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