Miscellaneous
Building My Friendship Family Most of us have two major groups in our lives. One is our biological family and the other is our friendship family. While our biological family is given to us at birth, each of us makes our own personalized choices for persons we include in our individual family of friends. Wellness psychology sees friendship as a contract between individuals that contains our beliefs, values, feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. Most contracts have varied steps in building and maintenance. As a living relationship, mutual nurturance is needed for a friendship to stay alive. Our friendships tend to be healthiest when we understand and openly address the mutual expectations and assumptions that we each have with our friends.