Is a true friend a giver or a taker?

Question

Do you constantly have to give your friends things or do they give you things.? Does it matter in a friendship?

Answer 1

a true friendship is a balance of give and take....you don't keep track because it always evens out in the end.....

Answer 2

A true friend is a giver and it matters in a friendship if both
give to each other with security, love and enjoying each other's company!!!A real true friend is a DOG with unconditional LOVE!!

Answer 3

Of course it matters, you should show your friend that you care for him and he in return showed give back - if he was meant to be a true friend- and that what builds a true friendship....

Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behaviour between two or more humans. This article focuses on the notion specific to interpersonal relationships. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, and affection. Friends will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty towards each other, often to the point of altruism. Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable activities. They will also engage in mutually helping behavior, such as exchange of advice and the sharing of hardship. A friend is someone who may often demonstrate reciprocating and reflective behaviors. Yet for many, friendship is nothing more than the trust that someone or something will not harm them. Value that is found in friendships is often the result of a friend demonstrating on a consistent basis:

the tendency to desire what is best for the other,
sympathy and empathy,
honesty, perhaps in situations where it may be difficult for others to speak the truth,
mutual understanding.
In a comparison of personal relationships, friendship is considered to be closer than acquaintanceship, although there is a range of degrees of intimacy in both friendships and acquaintanceships. Friendship and acquaintanceship can be thought of spanning across the same continuum.

The principal disciplines studying friendship are sociology, anthropology and zoology. Various theories of friendship have been proposed, among which are social psychology, social exchange theory, equity theory, relational dialectics, and attachment styles.


And i believe in the following saying about friends;

"i love you not only for what you are,
but for what i a when i am with you.
i love you not only for what you have
made of yourself, but for what you are
making of me. i love you because you
have done more than any creed could have
done to make me good, and more than any
fate could have done to make me happy.
you have done it without a touch, without a word,
without a sign. you have done it by being yourself.
perhaps, that what being a friend means, after all "

Have a nice day.........^ w ^ '

Answer 4

Its equal in a true friendship. And unfortunately I can only say that I have 2 in my life like that. The rest of the moochers are just acquaintances

Answer 5

A true friend gives without expecting back, but can also take without guilt or fear of keeping score...and, a true "friendship" will share these beliefs with one another

Answer 6

i guess it depends on what is being taken and giving. I think its a combination of the two, but if you have a freind that is only a taker, then there may be an issue.

Answer 7

true friends give and take. you have to watch out for those "taker types" they dont put anything back into it.

Answer 8

i usually have to give,but i don't believe that a good friendship is based on giving or taking.

Answer 9

I have lots of true friends

Answer 10

A true friend would not take it into consideration