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A.           The Meaning of Friendship Relationship



                           The terms "friend" and "friendship" are used to refer to a
                     wide variety of interpersonal connections, including long-lasting

                     bonds characterized by great affection and loyalty, someone you

                     just met at a music festival or sporting event. Even in our day to

                     day lives we can make friends anytime at work, school, etc.


                           As Graham Allan (Allan, 1996) noted, our first issue when

                     considering  the  concept  of  friendship  is  the  absence  of  clearly

                     defined and socially accepted standards for what constitutes a
                     friend.  While  we  might  refer  to  someone  as  a  friend  in  one

                     context, it could be inappropriate in another. We could just have

                     a  very  vague  idea  of  what  friendship  means.  One  of  the  first

                     scholars  to  point  out  the  difficulty  in  defining  the  term
                     "friendship"  was  Beverley  Fehr,  who  said,  "Everyone

                     understands what friendship is until asked to explain it. Almost

                     as  many  social  scientists  have  studied  friendship  as  there  are

                     definitions of it.


                           According to Daniel J. Hruschka (Hruschka, 2010), a social

                     connection that resembles friendship is one in which the partners

                     help one another out as much as they can when one of them is in

                     need, with the conduct being partially motivated by the pleasant
                     feelings  they  share.  In  Stanford  Encyclopaedia  of  Philosophy

                     Helmm  writes  that  fundamentally,  friendship  entails  a  special
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