What kind of friend are you?

I thought about this performance with Whitney Houston and CeCe Winans tonight. For some reason it ran across my mind. Of course we know Whitney has passed on, but she was such good friends with the Winans family during her journey here on earth.

I wonder how they dealt with her issues with drugs and her embattled life.

That led to me thinking about friendships on the whole. The other day I saw someone I know post on FB about a friend betraying her. The betrayal threatened their friendship that was over a decade long. A number of people said the poster handled things wrong and should have confronted the friend privately. The poster responded with a message of hurt and disappointment.

Friendship is a deep thing. You do not expect friends to ever hurt you. But in turn they expect the same level of support and devotion from you. How much could someone's problems weigh on a friendship? Are you a good friend if you cannot handle the issues and step away? What kind of friend are you if you are only there in good times, but not in bad?

Are you the needy friend? The party only friend? The gossipy friend? The "can't trust ya" friend? The "think you're a friend, but you really aren't" friend?

I blogged about recognizing good friends before...but how do you recognize whether or not you are a good friend?