Type 2: Friends in Pleasure

There are fewer of these friendships in our lives. 

These are the friends we have in which we share various kinds of pleasure. It is  the people we play golf with, drink at the pub with or sometimes have sex with.

Again, in some cases, we may not even like being around these people beyond the pleasurable activity. How about those drinking buddies at the pub or some teammates on your sports team?

Since our pleasures change based on life's circumstances, these friendships only last as long as both parties enjoy the pleasurable activity and once one party no longer finds pleasure in the activity - that's it - the friendship starts to fade and each goes their separate way.
 
If both knew it was a friendship based on pleasure,  the separation is amicable; however, if one party thought the friendship went beyond pleasure,  things usually get emotional and animosity results.

Ask yourself if you or another in your life experienced this kind of relationship turmoil due to a misunderstood friendship type.

How many people in your life fall into this category?

Is it true that you drifted apart from someone, once interest waned in the common pleasure you shared?



Stay tuned for the third and highest form of friendship.  This is the kind Cicero said was very rare and that few people get to experience even once in their life. It is also a friendship that only good men and women can possess while  bad individuals are excluded from it.