Decoding Your Close Friends Group Dynamics
We all have friends. Degree of affinity varies, but we all have friends.
Most of us have close friend group — essentially, a group of friends who have been together for quite some time because of different reasons and now make up a very close-knit group. They could be college friends, sports team friends, from a cultural society, fraternity group friends or so on — but a group of friends who hang out together, plan trips together, watch movies together and are the first ones to be invited to a person’s wedding.
Those close friends.
On the face of it, it appears to be a very simple equation — a bunch of people with similar interests, sense of humour getting well together. But take a step back and you can see the multi-faceted personalities present in EVERY group. These different personalities interact differently and contribute in their unique ways to make the group a (hopefully) lifelong bond.
But more often than not, we see groups splitting up, friends not talking to each other any more, new friendships forcing people to distance themselves from ‘this’ group. The last one is actually pretty normal and does not necessarily translate into “splitting” of the core group. But the first two — these are pretty interesting. And avoidable.
