Friendships in Adulthood
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Friendships in adulthood
Just like adolescents, relationships with friends are important to
older adults. Friends contribute to our satisfaction, give us a sense of
belonging, competence, and self-worth. Friendship involves:
- Enjoyment: spending time doing things together and sharing life experiences
- Trust: believing that our friends act on our behalf
- Respect and understanding: believing that our friends have the right to their own opinions
- Mutual assistance: helping and supporting our friends and having them help us
- Confiding: sharing confidential matters with our friends
It might be particularly hard to maintain meaningful friendships in
the workplace. "The workplace can crackle with competition, so people
learn to hide vulnerabilities and quirks from colleagues. Work
friendships often take on a transactional feel; it is difficult to say
where networking ends and real friendship begins" (Williams, 2012).
Also, once you get a good friendship in the workplace, it can easily be
taken away. Because, "a job provides financial security. If forced to
choose between keeping your source of income and a friendship, most
people would choose to keep their job" (Bryant, 2012)
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