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That is why friend, you trust and feel comfortable with whom you can tell anything and they will still love and accept you, can make such a great dating and marriage partner.<br> <br> <b>Friends are good for you!</b><br> </p> <p><img src="friendly-relationships.jpg" class="floatimgleft" alt="Relationships with friends help us in love relationships." height="180" width="280" border="0">They have witnessed (and probably participated in) your greatest moments and your…not-so-great moments. They know your family, your taste in things and why that girl in the cubicle across the aisle drives you to distraction. People pick friends for a variety of reasons: business contacts, similar lifestyles, growing up together, or sharing the same hobby. There are, however, some people are closer than just friends. These people may not always be a part of the day-to-day living of your life, but they remain a part of who you are and will appear again in moments when you need them.<br> <br> Brenda (not her real name) is an average woman: married with kids, a steady job and a handful of hobbies and interests. She found the hectic life of a school teacher, wife and mother left her with very little time for socializing. She had lost contact with most of her old school friends and hadn’t really connected with anyone at her job. <br> <br> After her second child she began feeling depressed and found it increasingly difficult to manage her normal day-to-day chores. “There were days,” she smiles hesitantly, “when I couldn’t tolerate the thought of going to work and meeting the eyes of my co-workers and students.” <br> <br> As things spiraled out of control, a strange package arrived on Brenda’s doorstep. When she opened it, she found a book of poetry, some of her favorite snacks from high school and a picture. “I was so stunned. I sat down right on my steps and cried,” Brenda’s eyes sparkle with laughter. The picture was taken on a school day trip and showed herself and her best friend, Jan, who had moved in their final year of school. “We’d lost contact, but in that moment, before I’d even read her letter, it was as if that bond was instantly restored.” Brenda wipes at her eyes, “After all this time, she knew I needed her. She saved my life.”<br> <br> The two women began communicating, through email and letters, and found their lives had grown in parallel relationship to each other. Jan was also suffering from the stresses of job and family, but had decided to reach out to her best friend. Together, in spite of the long distance that separated them, the two women worked through their depression and encouraged each other to make changes they might not have been courageous enough to make. Jan now owns a small art gallery in her home town after quitting her job as a secretary. Brenda and her husband have opened a small café and feature artists and performers from across the country as entertainment.<br> <br> “Without the support from Jan, I never would have been able to work out what I wanted from my life. We inspired each other and lifted each other out of the boredom that was consuming our lives. It is so amazing to me that even after all this time, fifteen years, that we were able to pick up as if there had been no time passed at all.”<br> <br> Friendship is a remarkable thing, able to reach out across time, diverging lives and bring amazing change. It is humbling and inspiring. Reach out, right now, not only in romantic friendships that result in dating and marriage, but also build platonic friendships that enrich and change each other’s life for the better.<br> </p> <h3>Online Dating Services Related To This Article:</h3> <p><img src="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/media/stars-5-0.gif" alt="" height="12" width="59" border="0"><b> <a href="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/dating-sites-reviews/match-review.html" rel="nofollow">Match.com is #1</a>. After a detailed review of the fourteen largest general dating services on the Internet our editors ranked Match.com the very best for dating above-age-30 singles</b> - Not only did we find a greater number (59%) of singles age 30 to 49, we also found a greater number of singles with 4 year college and graduate degrees, which could explain the higher income levels of singles at Match.com and this can be extrapolated out to indicate a higher number of motivated, ambitious singles.<b><br> </b></p> <p><b><br> </b><img src="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/media/stars-5-0.gif" alt="" height="12" width="59" border="0"><b> <a href="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/dating-sites-reviews/senior-friendfinder-review.html">SeniorFriendFinder is #1</a>.</b> With over <b>400,000 members</b> this is the most popular senior dating service for English speaking senior single primarily in the USA, Canada and the UK. This very active online senior community is sure to please even those senior singles that are just looking for a place to belong to share common interests, and are not necessarily “hot” on the trail of their next marriage partner. Although romance is certainly in the air at SeniorFriendFinder all be it ever so low key as it is. <br> </p> <p><br> <img src="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/media/stars-45.gif" alt="" height="12" width="59" border="0"><b> <a href="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/dating-sites-reviews/prime-singles-review.html">PrimeSingles is #2</a>.</b> Prime Singles is #2. A site to strongly consider for online dating success, has state-of-the-art dating tools, a popular general senior dating site with about 300,000 members many of which (29%) are age 30 to 49 with 57% of all members in the age 50+ senior singles category.<br> </p> <p><br> <img src="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/media/stars-45.gif" alt="" height="12" width="59" border="0"><b> <a href="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/dating-sites-reviews/agematch-review.html">AgeMatch is #1</a>.</b> AgeMatch is #1 among age-gap, transgenerational dating sites. A site to strongly consider for online dating related to younger singles dating older singles and not having any hang ups with regard to age related issues.<br> </p> <p><br> <img src="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/media/stars-5-0.gif" alt="" height="12" width="59" border="0"><b> <a href="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/dating-sites-reviews/perfectmatch-review.html">PerfectMatch.com is #1</a>. After a detailed review of the five largest matchmaking services on the Internet our editors ranked PerfectMatch.com the very best matchmaking service for dating singles above the age of 30, including senior singles over age 50.</b> With over 15 million members this is a perfect matchmaking service for singles over age 30, including senior singles, to strongly consider if they want a dating site where matches are chosen for them by dating experts, after evaluation of a very detailed dating and personality questionnaire.<br> </p> <p><br> </p> <p><img src="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/media/stars-45.gif" alt="" height="12" width="59" border="0"><b> <a href="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/dating-sites-reviews/eharmony-review.html" target="blank">eHarmony.com is #2</a></b> With over 16 million members and a huge advertising budget eHarmony is probably the most well known matchmaking service on the Internet.<br> </p> <p><br> <p><img src="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/media/stars-45.gif" alt="" height="12" width="59" border="0"><b> <a href="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/dating-sites-reviews/true-review.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow">True.com is #3</a>.</b> With over 10.5 million members this is a dating site to strongly consider for online dating success and maybe even ultimate dating safety, since true does a criminal background check on all potential members before they are allowed to join. They also screen out anyone married who shows up in USA, public records. <br> </p> <p><br> <img src="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/media/stars-45.gif" alt="" height="12" width="59" border="0"><b> <a href="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/dating-sites-reviews/yahoo-personals-review.html" target="blank" rel="nofollow">Yahoo! Personals is #2</a>.</b> Our reviewers and editors really like this dating site and think that you will really like it, too. Yahoo! Personals has grown rapidly, since around 1998, to over 11 million members. You are certain to find a very good selection of singles over age 30 at Yahoo! Personals. It is also popular among senior singles looking for friends or senior dating opportunities.<br> </p> <p><br> </p> <p><a href="#dating-relationship">Top of Page</a></p> <p>© Copyright 1998-2009 <a href="http://www.singlesdatingcenter.com/">AboveAge30 Singles Dating Center</a> All rights reserved. </p> <p></p> </div> </div> </body> </html>