Question

Examine a popular magazine (i.e. Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and GQ) to determine what it teaches about close relationships (friendships or romantic relationships). Identify expectations about partners, behaviors, and feelings. Do you think these magazines have an effect on how you view your close relationships? At least 200 words.

Answer 1

Man cannot live alone. He needs society and friends. In reality it appears that and individual has many friends and it also appears that he has close friendship with few people. In the close friends if he expects some basic things like:

• The friend must help him in his need and trouble and at the same time he should also help the friend when he is also in trouble. It is a common proverb that friend in need is friend indeed.
• A person needs to share many secrets of his life with one whom he intimately and absolutely believes. A real friend is one who is absolutely reliable and with whom one can share any problems and personal matters. In such case the friend must maintain privacy and he should not disclose such matters to others.
• The relationship between the friends can never be a selfish relationship and the relationship is based on love and mutual respect. the main foundation of the friendship is trust and with the trust one come very close to others and they become intimate.
• With the real friends one becomes very spontaneous and feels liberal. He also feels secured when he has some trusted friends because in reality we have to face many troubles and then our good friends make us free from search troubles.

In the magazines we find many clues that help us how to build a close relationship and how to maintain a close relationship. It offers us many experience about many facts and we can realize the broader aspects of life. These magazines make us realize that a real friend is a gem beyond to measure its value.