Building Healthy Relationships Take Effort!

Do You Know How To Get To Know Others Properly?

• How do you feel inside when someone laughs at you?
• Describe what you think an ideal father would be like.
• Humbly tell how you felt proud of yourself for doing something nice for someone.
• Share your feelings about police officers.
• What would your reaction be if you saw a young 7-year-old girl being physically hurt by someone?
• Describe the first time you ever fell in love.
• Share the best advice you’ve ever remembered receiving.
• What does the word freedom mean to you?
• What do you think most of your closest friends like about you?
• Is there something in common about what you like about your closest friends?

Guide To Building Healthy Relationships!

Get To Know Others By Sharing Yourself With Them!

• Describe your best friend with as many details as you need to.
• What would you like to do to fulfill your life?
• If a stranger asked you for money for bus fare, would you give it to them, and why or why not?
• How does your faith or lack of confidence in God affect your life?
• How often do you feel sad, and why is that?
• What would be a reason that you would honk your horn while driving?
• What are three of your favorite foods?
• Describe the qualities of the best teacher you’ve ever had.
• Under what circumstances would you consider picking up a hitchhiker, and why?
• Describe how you look when you get angry.

Building Healthy Relationships To Know Others Can Be Fun!

• Say a joke or say something about jokes?
• What advice would you give a young person about living a good life?
• What was the most challenging thing you have ever said to someone you loved?
• When you are all alone, what do you usually like to do?
• Do you easily forgive others, or does it require effort?
• Share one of the happiest times of your life and who you were with.
• Talk about a time when someone did something surprisingly lovely for you.
• What is something you fear having to do?
• Share the names of two famous people you would like to have for your parents and why.
• What do you think the luckiest people in the world are?

Initiate Questions To Get To Know Others!

• Do your friends say good things about you when you’re not around?
• Describe what qualities an ideal mother would have in your mind.
• How do you feel about watching the news on TV with all the negative stories?
• If you were an animal, what would you like to be, where you want to live, and why?
• What is your favorite room in your entire house, and why?
• Do you have a favorite hobby? If so, what is it?
• What did you like best about grade school and high school?
• Why do you believe or not believe in God?
• Would you tell someone their shoe was untied if you noticed it?
• Would you ever take something that did not belong to you?

Here Are Some Helpful Links:

• How can a friend stick closer than a brother 
• How can I evangelize my friends and family without pushing them away?
• Qualities involved in having good friendships?
• What does the Bible say about friends?
• What is true friendship, according to the Bible?

How To Initiate Healthy Friendships?

1. Build relationships one at a time.
2. Be friendly and make a connection.
3. Ask people questions.
4. Tell people about yourself.
5. Go places and do things.
6.  Accept people the way they are.
7. Assume other people want to form relationships, too.
8. Overcome your fear of rejection.
9. Invite people to get involved.
10. Enjoy people.

Six Indicators That You Are A Good Friend!

1. You can be counted on, even if you have not talked to or seen them. You are the first to help or console others when times get tough. 
2. You are proud of your friends and support them, especially in times of difficulty or distress.
3. You stand up for them when they have a problem. This doesn’t mean you fight their battles or beat up everyone, but if someone is talking bad about them or about someone you love, or if another person has wronged them, you are willing to stand up for them.
4. Lift others, listen, and speak to them if they need encouragement.
5. Respect others and don’t make jokes at their expense or laugh at them.
6. You forgive,  accept sincere apologies, and don’t make them beg you for forgiveness. You don’t hold grudges. 

How To Be A Good Friend And Get To Know Others!

• Remember – Even if someone is smiling on the outside, they may be hurting on the inside.
• When you ask someone, “How are you? Honestly, take the time to listen to their response.  See what is going on.
• Relationships take time and effort. Even if it’s a phone call, a card, a meeting for coffee, or just an email or text saying I am thinking of you and praying for you today!
• That can mean the world to someone to know they are not alone.
• Life can throw a lot of pain and punches in people’s lives, some of their decisions, some entirely out of their control.
• But either way, take time today to be a friend, that listening ear, a shoulder to lean on.
• God can use us to bring hope and be a blessing in people’s lives one day. You may be the one on that receiving end. ~ Peg G

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