Ninth grader Cory Norman has some important qualities to look for in a friend, "They are honest and trustworthy and easy to get along with."
He went on to say, "You want to be yourself. Don't try to be something that you are not. Be honest with your friends and be yourself!"
While you may think younger people don't know a lot about relationships...think again...experts say the way you act as an adult has to do with your childhood relationships.
Dr. Allen Fruzzetti from UNR says, "The things that happen in young relationships have a subsequent affect on adult relationships. Kids learn what they can get...support, direction, understanding as well as painful things like a loss."
Tom Lavin, a local psychotherapist adds, "Whether we are a child in our family, a child at the grade school level or in high school all of the issues of intimacy, being accepted, and being rejected...they play a gigantic role in our ability to be vunerable and share with other people or to withdraw and protect ourselves in self-destructive ways."
While friends and family care about their loved ones who are in relationships...experts say they shouldn't try to change or end things they feel are not going in the right direction...just be supportive.
And no matter the outcome of the relationship, you'll at least learn some of life's lessons that will hopefully help you in the future.