"Reason, Season, or Lifetime: Understanding the Different Types of Relationships"

Reason, Season or Lifetime?

“If you can count the number of Lifetime “True Friends’ using all the fingers on one hand, or even a single finger on one hand, You Are Truly Sanctified.

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• Fun and Free!

• Lots of Laughing (With and At)

• Unconditionally Accepting and Judgement-Free

• Truthful, Two-Way Accountability Partners

• Encouraging

• Supportive

• Appreciative

• Neutral (When Appropriate)

• Confidential (ALL of Our conversations are Private)

• I can freely share without fear that it will not go any further (including their partner or spouse)

• Reciprocating (Not a giver, not a taker but rather a Matcher

• (I’m not always the one doing all the work, such as initiating conversations, reaching out, etc.)

• Expectations: ZERO

• During periods of non-communication for weeks or months, we pick up right where we left off 

• In short, Angels with Skin

• Soul

“People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person.

When someone is in your life for a REASON . . . It is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are! They are there for the reason you need them to be.

Then, without any wrong doing on your part, or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.

Sometimes they die.

Sometimes they walk away.

Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.

What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered. And now it is time to move on.

When people come into your life for a SEASON . . . Because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh.

They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.”

--Author Unknown

“Whether for A Reason, A Season or A Lifetime; I ask myself: What did I bring to the relationship? What lessons have I learned?”

--Bart Andrew Kudlicki 3/29/24