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Need Friendship Skills? Friendship Apps Might Help
Need Friendship Skills? Friendship Apps Might Help

By Suzanne Degges-White Ph.D. (2020)

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Written by Neil Wainwright
Updated over 4 years ago

Friendships may begin a variety of ways, but they don’t endure if friends don’t offer each other respect, authenticity, and support. If a friend isn’t “real” with us, then there’s not much there on which to grow a relationship. Without authenticity, there can be no intimacy.

By Suzanne Degges-White Ph.D. who is professor and chair of the Counseling and Higher Education department at Northern Illinois University.

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