Learn English with this friendship English lesson

Y think we always have frenemies  because there are always some persons who envy and try to cut us down.We must keep frenemies away because their competition is not healthy and can spite us.Vanessa should think of it before connecting with her eks friend.

enemy in a disguise of friend is called frenemy i think. frenemies are even more dangours then enemies because they keep an eye on us and know about all the weak and strong points of us. they are bunkum spirits and we can identify them by their jiggery-pokery. they silently rip off someone and zap the things. they ape like friends and behave amicably. these kinds of pseudo relations ends soon because we can’t tow it. my doors are closed for the people called frenemies and i can just dash them out from my life. i always try to avoid such dodgy type of human beings. venessa there is no raison d etre to be friend again with the person who had disfigured friendship with you.

Whos hás frenemy don’t need anemy

I don’t think that somebody’s can be an “enemy” to be written off, to be boycotted, God forbid, or to be changed. Sounds like a war :) People don’t change actually. It’s just the difference of characters, background, cultures… There’s never one side to blame. Even though I’ve had some ‘frenemies’, I don’t hold grudge on them and don’t think they are frenemies. To show  cool pictures for them? What for? You know how you look like;)   Will it change the situation?  I used to have one friend who always tried to rub it in with something bad I had,  I just tried to shed some positive light from those comments and tried to talk about something else.  Writing somebody off  doesn’t give you the garantee not to happen to be in the same shoes. So, I think it’s totally subjective,k the frenemy thing. There’s no “We” here, everyone is for himself. So, no frenemies :).

I find the term is not quite appropriate, this word can not be used for a long time for a person because once it is found out that somebody among friends is really an enemy, most of people would no longer stay in touch with this bad friend, I also would do that, so the time for using this term is limited ;), whereas the terms friend and enemy could be used all the time for a person. The term would be right when somebody like staying in touch with bad friends, which is not very likely.

For me, I once had this kind of friends. It was a shock for me since he was one of the closest friends. That was in high school, that was difficult to find it out quickly because he alwasy showd a nice and kind face also to the other friends but sayed and did very bad things behind our backs. We finally noticed that he was kind of mentally unstable..

I couldn´t agree more with MESS . At some point of our life we all have to come across  with  people that  disguised as friends , but  inwardly  or not quite  so, will showed  how mean  they are ,  envying  us  for whatever reason  and not being supportive   at all. I agree with Jason ,Vanessa  should put  her prom queen picture on facebook  and wait if  her friend  still wants to be ” friends” :))))    

I do not really keep frenemies in my life. The person who does wrong to me or pretends to be my friend just for his/her personal gains has no place in my life. It might sound a bit harsh, but I write those people off my life without giving it a second thought. Writing them off is better than being a hypocrite and giving them a fake but obligatory smile whenever I see them. 

Healthy competition is encouraging if both of the rivals can maintain it in a peaceful and friendly way. Vanessa should decline her friend request if she believes she may not have changed, or she can give her a second chance thinking and hoping she may have changed over time. 

I like Imperivm’s thought “Hi, did you see I have many frenemies?”   I can imagine the face of the person if you say that. That’s a nice joke!! :))

yes, i think i had frenemies before. one of the benefits for us to have fenemies in our lives is that it makes us to be a better peron, when i was in middle school , i had a friend like that, we seemed close , but she was always trying to make a fool of me whenever she got the chance. then we went our seperated ways,  i went to senior high  and she went to work , one day we got re-united in our hometown for the spring festival , and she was trying to play the same game ,  i’ve grew up a lot , and capable to deal with it , and made her the one who was losing face ,she must learned  i am not the same gal as i was in middle school . and she is gonna pay a price by not trying to be friendly around me ,

Strange an funny word!

I dont remember any frenemy in my life!Maybe some of my friends have done  somethings that were not very friendly but I dont care!

In competetions we should try more to run in healthy way!

I think Vanessa has no good feeling and no good memory about that person and its better she dosent accept her as a friend!Or she can try again and see what will happen in future!

Sometimes some friends have made mistakes in our past but we cant say they are our Frenemies!:)

Good and funny term. I have never heard aboit it before.

To be honest I don’t believe in frenemies. Somebody can be your friend or enemies. Thses terms are so against each other that cannot relate to one person. 

In today lesson Vanessa was received a invitation to be a friend on facebook. Firstly facebook is very bad idea. Secondly her “friend” from school isn’t her really friend, because friend doesn’t mean to be nice outside. It is important to be friend from inside too. If somedody doesn’t, then she’s not a frenemy, but just enemy with lies in her eyes. That is my opinion.

Why we keep enemies close to us? I think because we should keep our enemies as near as we can in order to better fight with them:)

Ive heard it in ppersian but in english is new…

oh.we use like this terms in persian  a lot.we keep these poeple in our lives beacuse that time  we  appreciate really friend.yes I thing have frenemies

I had never heard of it! I think it is one of those words we never use in public or we would sound weird “Hi, did you see I have many frenemies?” ha ha!

Frenemies?a good word,Vanessa was lucky cause she found her frenemies.sometimes we don’t know who they are at all.