Having a difficult time with your friendships? Hard to recognize the difference between your true friends vs your fake ones? Not sure how to avoid the toxic and dangerous friends? Wanting to find ways to enhance and strengthen current friendships? Then this is the book for you…and your friends! You won’t regret it. The Friendship Quadrant will be a tool you can use in all aspects of every relationship and it will be an effective resource your entire life. As a family therapist, this is the first book I have read that focuses solely on the power and importance of friendship. The Friendship Quadrant provides a comprehensive toolkit for all ages to navigate the peaks and valleys of interpersonal relationships. I would recommend the Friendship Quadrant to any individual looking to improve, strengthen, and nurture positive friendships as well as parents hoping to guide their children in this same process. Lori B. Morton, MS, LPC Friendship Quadrant (FQ) teaches how to choose friends wisely and how to be a good friend. It utilizes a creative quadrant model to help people of all ages, but especially young people, to understand how to manage expectations in relation to their friends. With this new understanding, the readers become empowered as they quickly realize that their ‘friend issues’ are often not their fault. With this heightened awareness their self-image naturally improves. It’s important, even vital, for people of all ages to have good friends. But as young people strive to find their way in life it becomes exponentially imperative for them to have good, reliable friends. Poor friend choices have had devastating effects on the lives of legions of young people who forfeited a bright future because of their friends . By the time you finish reading this engaging book, you have learned the steps to becoming a good friend yourself so that you can attract and maintain, reliable true blue friends throughout your life. Friendship Quadrant will deliver to each reader a powerful and practical life tool that is easy to learn, retain and implement. In essence, it is a compass that will direct the individual to greater, more enriching friendships that will deliver immeasurable benefits. When taught in the middle school or high school environment FQ principles provide an anti-bullying message without ever saying the word bully . This reality is a natural result of learning and accepting FQ principles. It’s important to note, that while FQ utilizes a quadrant system to teach us to choose friends wisely, it is not a labeling system that forever banishes a person to a quadrant that falls below the line (explained in the book). Instead, the book encourages the reader to embrace those that don’t meet the standard of a good friend. It then teaches the reader meaningful guidelines that will insulate them from the negative influences these friends may have on them. In doing so, they don’t become a victim during the process of providing a positive example. We believe firmly that Friendship Quadrant will have a positive impact on the lives of every person that reads it, and in some cases, it will redirect an individual away from a path that is leading them to misery. As the famous quote goes, Show me your friends and I will show you your future!
