Suggested Score 80% Accept Suggested Score Manual Score: Manual Score Prompt Rubric | Checklist Qualities of Strong Relationships In a lifetime, a person will associate with many people, building stronger bonds with some friends or family members over others. Over time, some relationships will grow while others fade. What qualities do you think promote healthier, longer-lasting relationships? Write an essay that describes the qualities you think can best support a strong relationship. Use examples from your own life and texts you have read to support your explanation. As you write, remember your essay will be scored based on how well you: • develop a multi-paragraph response to the assigned topic that clearly communicates your controlling …show more content…
Friendships and relationships mean the most to me when it comes to how I want to live my life. There are two important qualities that I think can lead to having a strong relationship or friendship with family and friends and that 's honesty and trust. First of all honesty can break a relationship depending on what the subject is about. For example my brother has always been a good liar ever since I can remember. When I was little he used to tell me things and I always believed him because I mean he was my brother why would he want to lie and as the day would pass I would realize he lied to me again. I ended up opening my eyes and seeing how he hardly says the truth which made me loose my trust in him. I can never tell him anything without wondering whether he will go and make a lie out of it or hear something he has said and believed it was true. Which comes to my second main idea, trust can play a huge role also. Without trust there 's not much really. Every relationship or friendship depends on trust. For example a couple months ago an incident happened where my stepsister lost my trust. She said some things she shouldn 't have and tried to cause problems at my house. She ended up loosing all my trust and now I don 't even know what out friendship is, I don 't even know if to call it a friendship. Trust can ruin everything when lost. In conclusion, for me honesty and trust are the two main things. There