It happened when my daughter was still in the church nursery.  She was barely talking, and she was already mentioning her two “friends” by name.  I was caught off guard by my daughter’s strong desire to find friends.  But what started off as cute antics has grown. Those girls are still all friends 11 years later.  And fortunately, no one still bites each other any more!  Deep friendships are something most of us long to find.   Friends can make life so much more fun and the hard times more bearable.  Other times our friendships can be a source of great personal anguish.  So how to know when to keep or fire that friend is a survival skill we should all attain.  It will help us to draw and treasure the right friends and walk away from people who will drain us.

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