They're renewed at reunions

Usage examples of friendships.

On-the-job relationships frequently overlap friendships, and less often, neighbor relationships.

Co-membership relationships--links with people in church or civic organizations, political parties and the like--sometimes flower into friendship, but until that happens such individual associations are regarded as more perishable than either friendships, ties with neighbors or fellow workers.

John Barth has captured the sense of turnover among friendships in a passage from his novel The Floating Opera: "Our friends float past.

The only fault in this is its unspoken suggestion that the current upon which friendships bob and float is lazy and meandering.

Individuals will develop the ability to form close 'buddy-type' relationships on the basis of common interests or sub-group affiliations, and to easily leave these friendships, moving either to another location and joining a similar interest group or to another interest group within the same location .

Friendship patterns of the majority in the future will provide for many satisfactions, while substituting many close relationships of shorter durability for the few long-term friendships formed in the past.

Her friendships will rub off on him, color his judgment about the people under him, jeopardize his job.

These matter-of-fact instructions on how to dis-relate send a chill down the spine of those raised on the traditional notion that friendships are for the long haul.

In Western societies, for example, the sending of Christmas cards is an annual ritual that not only represents continuity in its own right, but which helps individuals prolong their all-too-temporary friendships or acquaintanceships.

Listening intently to what young people are saying makes it clear that the once-simple business of forging real friendships has already assumed new complexity for them.

By speeding the turnover of people in our lives, we allow less time for trust to develop, less time for friendships to ripen.

One may doubt the effectiveness of these experimental techniques for breaking down suspicion and reserve, but until the rate of human turnover is substantially slowed, education must help people to accept the absence of deep friendships, to accept loneliness and mistrust--or it must find new ways to accelerate friendship formation.

However, Lunzie was willing to tolerate Gaber because he had been able to achieve long-term (for an ephemeral) friendships with the oldest Theks on the ARCT-10 and she would divert his complaints to the relationships which fascinated her.

New friends she made easily, but the constant shifting from link to link made it hard for such friendships to grow.

A few real friendships had come out of this, and many more amiable working relationships .