The way you tell your friends is 1) Through crisis 2) As you get to know them. Not everyone is lucky enough to see things clearly. Sometimes we act out of negligence and we fail to realize that our actions do hurt other people – and they certainly do. Have you never been annoyed and ultimately let down by a friend? Have you never learned of a situation where friendships die because one friend didn’t show enough interest in the other? or because they lied to them (even if they were ‘white little lies’)? or what about friendships that die because a friend just gives himself to the dark side of his nature, even when you tried to bring him/her back up?

This is when you say ‘You’re my friend and in order for me to trust you, you have to gain my trust by (insert your expectation here)’. These expectations only serve to make the relationships stronger (as I said, we all have them)… but some of them are obvious, while others are not. Keep that in mind.