In "The Friendship Bond" Mary Brown Parlee says more than 40,000 readers express their thought on what they looked for in close friendships like: what they expected of friends, what they were willing to give in return and how satisfied they were in return and with the quality of their friendships. Mary explained that friendship appears to be a unique form of human bonding. It has it's own subjective principle which is enhance feelings of warmth, trust, love, and affection between two people. She made mention of the questionnaire on friendship that appeared in the march issue of Psychology today, which confirmed that issue of trust and betrayal are central to friendship. Not only that it also suggested that readers should not look for friends only among these who were like them, but find many who differ in race, sexual preference, religion, and ethnic background. Furthermore, Mary mention social critics and how they pointed to the dislocation and isolation that they think grows out of the high mobility rate among Americas and a loss of community supports. In my own point of view, I think social critics are more or less right with their points because nowadays people do not have trust in each other, and also they turn away in time of emotional crisis. Most especially Immigrants which are peculiar people that suppose to be in one fold, but instead they backbite each other; they find it difficult to confide in each other, and turn away to each other when it comes assistance. This could definitely bring isolation and dislocation. But all the same, friendships are alive and well because the survey in the article shows us the part that the social critics do not see.
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