Do you always expect for your best friend to help you?

You know, whenever I help out my friends, and they thank me, I always tell them - "No need to thank me, What are friends for?"

And i have the same expectations from my friends.. I go to my friends with the expectation that they would help me, not to inform them of my problem..

But, there would be cases when friends just cannot help, no matter how genuine they are. In such circumstances, they should be available atleast as a moral support or as a shoulder to cry on..

Cheers!!

I don't really expect anything from my best friend to help me all the time. I appreciate if they will help me but if ever they can't be there for me I don't feel bad because I know that not all the time they can always be there for me since they also have their own life to look after and they also have their own problems need to solve. Its nice to have a friends who always there for you but sometimes it doesn't help ourself. When our friends will always be there for us we will never learn to stand on our own. We will not learn to solve our ow problems. Sometimes, we need to be alone so that we will learn the true meaning of life. When we keep on depending ourself to others we will not live our life to the fullest because when our friends leave us our life would be empty and miserable since we always depend everything to them. So, I myself don't depend always to friends. I share my problems to them but I'm not expecting that they'll help me. I rather solve my problems alone because at the end I will learn my lessons and able to discover new things on the way...

When I am in a problem or trouble I go to my friends and tell them my problems and ask for advise but I don't take it as granted that they would help me because they might have their constraints.The only reason why I don't expect too much from my friends is if I don't get what I expected i would be very disappointed and might think that they are not my friends.They may have some genuine reasons for not helping me.
I cannot judge their friendship just because they didn't help me out.
And at the same time if they are finding excuses everytime I turn to them then it simply means they are not my friends so its useless in depending on such friends...

I tell my friends of my difficulty and they tell me theirs .As far as possible we try to help one another,but there is no hard feelings if at times we do not help one another.Sometimes when i feel i'm troubling my friend or its a difficult task for him i make it a point not to seek his help.Our best friends should try to help us as far as possible but we shouldn't take it amiss if the problem is herculean and despite their best effort we are unable to solve it.As one person commented if we lend moral support and our friend lends us moral support at times it is sufficient.

I have only one best friend. And really expect that he help me, but he never. Strange but true. Dont know why. But i know feelings are same both sides. And never think that he is not a true friend. May be he wants that i do myself.

not really though its up to them. i dont normally ask for their help directly. i just tell them i have problem and they will be the one to offer their help for me. those are my trusted fiends and i love them all.

No, I never depend on anybody as long as I could solve and think my way out of my problem. I am better of to resolve it by myself than disturbing my bestfriend or other people. I would only ask for their help in extreme cases where i feel to the point of being hopeless and depress.

Friends are not that important for me. I used to give value on friends before but I don't I do now. Most of my friends are gone, gone to the wind. They alive and still kicking but they seem to friendship like we used to do. You cant just rely on friends because they are just there whenever they are benefited from you, but whenever they dont, they'll gone. Make family your best friend and you'll surely wont fail.

Hi,

Just because a good, best friend cant always help dont mean they stop caring about there friend, some things are just out of our control to help, sometimes friends just good listeners, and do give there friendly advice.

I myself dont have many friends because to much to put out there to trust all over again, so im set with the 2-3 friends I have and happy with that.
the way I see it if there no longer your friend, yes it does hurt I do know this, say OH WELL THERE NOT WORTHY OF MYSELF OR MY TIME TO GIVE TO BE THERE FRIEND.THERE LOSS YOUR GAIN.

Never sleep with your friend that dont work out too, I done that myself once and I felt ackward and really didnt want to be around him anymore he tried to be around me but I felt uncomfortable because it was an accident we slept together, but once cross that border cant change what will be.

im thinking maybe u did that urself? but dont quote me.

goodluck and im sure you have other friends that are with you to suuport you.

U have many friends here with mylot im sure will converse with you, like meself. chin up and dont give up hope.:)

Renee: Maine

If you have a best friend, then you should feel that it's that person's duty to help you every time that you need. That's why I've stopped using that expression since I realized I really didn't have anyone who's always there for me. Best friends are a rare thing these days, I tell you...