Unit3Friendship课文及课后习题汇总.pdfVIP

Why Do Friendships End? By Allison Hunter The only danger in Friendship is that it will end. – Henry David Thoreau 1 I received an email from a reader who asked, friendships end, no“Why do some matter how much you want them to last? ” She referred to having seen the question in one of my articles, Mystery of Friendship. As I wrote in it, I don ’ exist as to how friendships start, why some turn into lifetime ones, and why some end. Although I ’ve tried answering the first two questions in other articles (To Have A Friend and Be A Friend), I still get surprised by friendships that endure and disillusioned by ones that slip away. Even so, I ’ll try to offer some insights here as to why friendships end. 2 My simple answer is that friendships end because the situations friends are in or even the friends themselves change. Others have similar answers. First, the situations friends face may change. The decision to relocate for a new school or job cannot help but affect a friendship. Likewise, if a friend is in an accident, develops an illness, or loses someone close, these situations cannot help but affect a friendship. Does a friendship need to end because of these changes? No, but it ’ll require adjustments that one or both friends might not be willing to make. 3 Second, the friends themselves may change. A significant reason that friendships often end when friends are apart for an extended period of time (for summer camp, college, etc.) is that one or both of the friends change. I think it hurts less when both friends change, because then the breakup is more often mutual and so both friends get closure by both deciding to let go and move forward in