How to be A Best Friend Forever: Making and Keeping Lifetime Relationships - Hardcover

Our world has diluted the meaning of friendship, but the reality is, there’s nothing like the sustaining strength of true-blue, forever friends. Still, many people are convinced that they’ll never find such lifelong connections—or that they don’t need them.

In this encouraging book, best-selling author and psychologist John Townsend delivers hope and help for making these relationships a reality—and for making them even better if you’ve already got a “bestie.” His eight principles for building the very best kind of friendship, along with his shared experiences within his own friendships (including mistakes he’s made), will move every reader to aspire to deeper connections and to stay the course when challenges arise. Townsend’s simple but profound concepts are sure to transform readers’ relationships and keep them from missing out on one of life’s greatest and most essential joys: the joy of having a best friend.

Friend. It’s a word whose meaning is confusing, and whose usage is often overdone in our fast-paced, digital world. Increasingly, our circles of “friends” are a mile wide, yet the relationships are paper-thin. Even so, there’s nothing like the sustaining strength and life-enriching power of true-blue, forever friends. And we need them now more than ever.

Enter Dr. John Townsend, the best-selling coauthor of Boundaries (over 2 million copies sold) and one of America’s foremost authorities on relationships. How to Be a Best Friend Forever is a guide to shattering relationship barriers, bringing you eight vital skills necessary for building long-lasting, resilient, rewarding friendships of the very best kind.

In this insightful and practical book, you’ll discover the thrilling truth—and open yourself to the awesome reality—that one of life’s greatest joys is the joy of having a best friend forever.