True Friends/Love_Healthy Relationships.

In true friendships/long-lasting healthyrelationships, there is mutual love, respect, trust, and loyalty. If you're in any kind of relationship with anyone for a long enough time, there will be times when you get on each other's nerves, fight, and maybe even betray the other person or vice versa or both. However, when someone truly cares about someone and they betray them, their hearts and conscience tells them to go make things right and they are willing to do whatever it takes to make things right again. It happened in the fictional relationships between Cory, Topanga and Shaw. And then Riley and her friends in Girl Meets World.

They may be fictional characters, but they give genuine (real) life lessons we can learn from on how to handle problems and how to have healthy relationships that can work through any hurt or problem that comes their way. And they did seek God's help (Cory prayed to God and others like Eric and Topanga and Riley and Maya did too in both shows). One of the solutions they gave was to seek God's help, to listen to that still small voice inside saying to do the right thing, and Cory or the person God is talking to ends of doing the right thing and it always worked out, like it does in healthy relationships with Healthy people, or people who may be physically healthy but have mental and emotional health problems, that also work out because of their close friends and family members who love them enough to help them through those rough times.

So in long-lasting healthy relationships, when you have a fight or disagreement or there is a betrayal, talk it out and each person listen to the other person's perspective/point of view and consider their feelings. Try not to betray anyone, but if you do, be quick to go to them and do your part to try to make things right. And the person feeling betrayed, give the person a chance to make it right, especially if you know they would never intentionally hurt you. Communication of one another’s feelings and listening to each other's sides, along with mutual love and mutual respect is important. And where trust has been lost, giving the other person a chance to earn it back by showing you, over time, that he or she can be trusted.

Don't waste time being angry or too full of pride to talk things out and then do whatever else it takes to work things out. True Friends/long-lasting relationships are not easy to find (including true love), and life is too short to be unforgiving and bitter. Some things are really hard to forgive... and in some cases it is not safe to let the person back into your life, but I am not talking about those cases. I am talking about things that are safe to work out, with people safe to work things out with.

It is written in Proverbs 17:9 that "love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends." It is also written, in Proverbs 18:24 that: "there are "friends" who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother." The Bible has quite a few more Bible verses about friendships, and I encourage you to look them up and read them. But these 2 stand out for what God and I are saying about friendship and other relationships here. 1 Peter 4:8 tells us to "continue to show deep love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins," and Mark 11:25, with Jesus speaking, tells us that when we are praying, to first "forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against so that your Father in Heaven will forgive your sins too." Love, friendship, and all
other long-term relationships that are healthy, stay healthy through forgiveness, other forms of love including compassion and kindness, open communication, and trust on both sides (for all of the above).

Let us take what the Lord says in Scriptures to heart and be loving and forgiving, and most important of all: keep Jesus, our Lord and Savior, at the center of all of your relationships. If you not yet know Jesus, it is not too late, as long as you have breath in you. Jesus loves you unconditionally and is absolutely The Best Friend Anyone could ever have . Jesus makes the impossible things, including working things out with a loved one or friend who hurt you, possible (read Matthew 17:20). Let the Lord heal all of you, including wounds from the past, and possibly some still going on in the present. Jesus did it over 2,000 years ago, and still does it today, and willingly, out of His great love for you.