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About Friendship - The Characteristics of a True Friendship

Are you a true friend?

By Anya ShepardPublished 4 years ago 4 min read
About Friendship - The Characteristics of a True Friendship
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When it comes to friendship, age doesn't matter, but mutual respect matters. It can happen that in life, contradictions or differences of opinion often appear when two people meet, this is normal.

Find out in this article interesting things about friendship, how to find out if a person is a true friend of yours, how to interpret nonverbal language, and how to build a quality friendship.

Subtle signs of friendship

  • Eye contact can send a friendly signal to a person, as well as other nonverbal signals, such as:
  • Tilt your head to one side
  • Eyebrow raising
  • The real smile.

Head gestures - Tilt your head to the right or left

When you see a person tilting their head to the left or the right, you feel that they are making a somewhat insignificant gesture, but they are sending a friendly signal.

Tilting your head is a way of interacting with other people. Through this gesture that people have towards other people, at certain moments, they show that they sympathize with them or that they consider them trustworthy.

Leaning your head toward the other person is a sign of friendship. In addition, such people who bow their heads to other people with whom they have a conversation are more attractive, more honest, more friendly. The gesture is made more by women than by men. Men are said to tend to keep their heads straight, to show that they are more confident, or to pose as dominators.

When it comes to a relationship with a woman, men should consider this gesture, because tilting their head to one side can make them look kinder, friendlier, more attractive. When a woman sees a man tilting his head to one side, he has the impression that he is very interested in what he is saying and that he is interested in her person.

As a result, her ego is flattered, she thinks he is fascinated by her, and so she can be persuaded quite easily to have more confidence in him. Given these, he can use this gesture to his advantage, to be more attractive, to win a woman's heart.

Why do people tilt their heads to the right as they kiss?

Researchers have concluded that people who are involved in romantic, romantic relationships tend to tilt their heads to the right while kissing. This happens in two out of three couples. They looked at 500 photos of people in love kissing and compared them to photos of people who were just friends or relatives kissing platonic.

The results showed that in 80% of couples when it comes to love, there is a tendency for the two to turn their heads to the right while kissing. If it's just about friendship and the kiss is platonic, between friends or relatives, the results showed that people tend to turn their heads to the left, so in the opposite direction.

In conclusion:

If the relationship is romantic, love, tilt your head during the kiss is done to the right. The stronger the feelings, the more inclined the head is to the right.

If the relationship is platonic, tilt your head to the left.

Eyebrow raising

This nonverbal friendly signal is subtle and can send the message that the person is not a danger, but on the contrary, is open to friendship. A friendly person can almost unconsciously raise his eyebrows when he meets another person he likes for the first time and this clearly shows the sympathy or the fact that he is happy to meet.

This nonverbal communication occurs between two people who are at a distance of at least 2 m. If one of them does not make this gesture, it means that she is restrained or wants to avoid approaching. Raising each other's eyebrows is a signal that rapprochement or communication may be taking place. Lack of signal is a clear sign of ignorance, disinterest, or even antipathy.

A person's smile

Any smiling person is attractive, he conveys a state of well-being to those around him. A smile is a sign that shows enthusiasm, pleasure, optimism, politeness, happiness, and confidence. People by nature are social beings, and if they smile they only have something to gain. A smile says a lot about friendship.

A smile is a simple way to show a person that you like them. It is good to smile at those around you to convey your friendship. In addition, it is good not to speak ill of anyone, to remain as neutral as possible, to take care of your business, this is the secret of happiness. It is also not good to lie, because it is said that lies have short legs, and this is how it is - everything comes to light quickly.

A smile is the simplest and most advantageous facial expression. If you want to please the world, you have to smile a lot and your smiles are genuine. Unfortunately, nowadays people are more sad and depressed.

Here are the signs that a man is smiling hard or that his smile is fake:

  • A smile that is not genuine seems unbalanced.
  • In some people, the false smile is accentuated on the right side of the face (right-handed), in others it is accentuated on the left side of the face (left-handed).
  • A forced smile sends the message that the person is not interested in the person smiling at them.
  • A real smile is pretty hard to mimic. It is symmetrical, does not last long. There is a movement of the eyebrows and the formation of goosebumps on the eyes.
  • Through the smile, the secretion of endorphins, dopamine, and serotonin takes place, and thus the feeling of pleasure and happiness appears. The researchers also found that artificial smiles correlate with certain regions of the brain that produce negative emotions.

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