Mending My Relationship

My focus is on my relationship with my best friend. We have been best friends for a while, coming up on nine years here at the end of the semester. Though we have been best friends for so long, here recently we have had a few instances where we have felt distant and disconnected from one another. We both feel that these feelings are because of our lack of communication. Throughout the entire time of our friendship we have only had a very small amount of issues between us. The most recent event was just a few weeks ago. I was feeling as if we are growing apart. Our communication is very minimal and our commitment to our friendship is wavering. We both have let our school, work, and life schedules get in the way of our friendship. There are a few ways I believe I can go about mending our friendship. Sacrifice via direct reciprocity and building trust back up, and hopefully restoring our commitment to our friendship. Another method that I believe would be productive and beneficial would be through a gentle operant conditioning approach. I believe that …show more content…
If the methods are carried out properly our relationship could flourish and the communication between us would be better than ever before. Direct reciprocity of sacrifice would generate a mutual feeling of love, kindness and respect towards the other person. In doing this the relationship would become stronger as each individual puts the other person first more frequently and trust builds. Operant conditioning would be more of a direct approach to the issue. In turn operant conditioning would train her to communicate more of how I would want her to. Which does seem inhumane. However, this would still increase the communication and boost the relationship.
A Disclaimer: I would never actually condition and manipulate my best friend. This is just one tactic that could help our communication issues and overall our