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Being cruel to be kind

I think if you're very good friends sometimes it's pays to be cruel to be kind yeah and is that going on in this friendship as well sometimes would you call each other out yeah...

Course: Life stories and relationshipsSection: Friendship stories and qualitiesSubtitles: en

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know

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I think if you're very good friends

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sometimes it's pays to be cruel to be

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kind yeah and is that going on in this

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friendship as well sometimes

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would you call each other out yeah yeah

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100% yeah being able to be yourself yeah

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being able to be yourself and and I

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think the other thing is Ian and I we

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don't see each other that often but we

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always just

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shush we just sort of pick up don't we

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where we left off

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commitment um I would say a shared

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passion yeah um and humor yeah

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definitely a sense of humor I mean when

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there all of us fall together we have

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such laughs yeah know hysterical laughs

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in hysterical

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places patience yeah just being honest

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and honesty is the best thing for me I

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think that's probably why and yeah open

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communication yeah she's a very open

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Communicator yes you call it out

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absolutely yeah that's good though right

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you know where you stand what is the

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most important part of that

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communication is it the speaking bit or

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the listening bit both yeah it's having

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a conversation yes it is one speaks the

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other one speaks yes but I would I would

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actually say more listening because most

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people I know don't listen um they

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pretend

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