填空题 Friendships may not last. Friendships can lose importance and 1 . Some friendships end abruptly 2 . The worst enemy of friendships is change by 3 friends. There is usually pain with the loss of friendship. In fact, friendships end with pain and change.
Many people expect that their friends 4 . They expect friendship to last forever. Yet, friendships end and friends 5 company every day. Unfortunately, even the best maintained friendships 6 .
Many end because of a change 7 when friends just drift apart and 8 with time. There is a retreat from self-disclosure and seeking out each other"s company. Avoidance begins. The friendship slowly 9 and finally disappears.
Bob Carver, Dallas psychotherapist, says, "A friendship or any other relationship fails because of three things: 10 , undelivered communication, and/or thwarted attention."
Yet 11 to a friendship is change. For example, moving from single life to coupled life has 12 . Coupled persons often feel their single friends act interested in them only when 13 is not in sight. The single friend may feel 14 and withdraw from a world of twosomes. Divorced and widowed people often have a feeling of being abandoned by old friends.
Lillian Rubin in her book " 15 " says, "Thus generally it"s true that friends accept each other 16 they both remain essentially the same as they were when they met, or change in similar directions. If they 17 in different or incompatible ways, the friendship most likely will be lost."
Regardless of why, when, or 18 , there is always some pain of loss to assimilate. When nothing can be done to 19 , it is important to grieve and 20 fully. Then move on to enhance another friendship or build entirely new friendships.