Have Conversational Misunderstandings Hurt A Friendship?

Yeah..it can;t be denied in friendship that misunderstanding arises sometimes....it adds spice to the friendship though..just like in loving someone...MU also occurs BUT in the end it will be solved by...if both have patients to understand the situation why it does happened also if Both have ears to listen and heart to understand the problem matter to be able to build stronger relationship as friends or lovers...RIGHT...!!! well, in solving such case , MU, one must listen the understand both..** @jam@ ~live life~ simply amazing***

This happed to me with old friends I used to have. Usually things said were not being said to hurt, but sometimes because of this, friendships fizzle. In my case that happend to me. I lost a few friends over something so small, that could have been fixed easily. Of course that misunderstanding not only cost me my friends, but it gave me a bad reputation, simply because I said what I felt.

I don't have very good writing skills, shizuoka, well, I can express but sometimes I just don't use the right words. Plus, there is difference in how much weight people from different backgrounds put on some words. Some words are taken lightly from where I come but not so lightly by natives and vice versa. All this can cause misunderstanding and problems in my conversations online, and in fact it HAS caused misunderstandings sometimes. It is easy to handle misunderstandings in off-line life as one can see facial expressions in real time and can foresee if things aren't going the right way. Here, when I started, I often asked people at the end of my post if I am making sense or if I an understandable. I also used to encourage them to ask anything if things aren't clear. And, it had helped as people would ask questions to clarify certain points of my post. Still, words can be misconstrued, and more importantly the intentions can be misjudged. I wish your friend had tried to understand what you really meant and had seen things in perspective! It troubles me when someone just take the words in wrong perspective and forgets about the personality behind those words, never giving them benefit of doubt. I do hope that things get better for the two of you. I only hope not to be in that situation!

I've had several misunderstandings in the past and I live by the saying that if a friend can't accept the way you are,then it's not worth the friendship.

I have same experience like you have in the past but then we are friends and we tend to forgive for whatever mistake one of us have done, we accept each other and love each other although we're not perfect we have a heart that is forgiving to accept and forget mistakes.