After viewing this website I found that there are a number of challenges to friendship discussed in this chapter in the advice forum. There are a lot of friendships that are subject to internal tensions and external pressures. In one of the forums I saw someone post that they have had this friend since they were little and all the sudden they get a boyfriend. Now the friends aren’t spending as much time together because one is more focused on the boyfriend. This is an example of an external pressure called competing demands. Sometimes we neglect established friends because of new relationships coming into our life. This specific example from the forum did directly reflect one of the challenges as stated in the book. There were also plenty of other issues raised that reflected challenges in relationships like geographic distance, diverse communication styles, and personal changes. So overall I would say that the website was pretty much spot on.
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