And Friends Are Friends Forever...

Jacki, my oldest daughter, and I were talking about the changes in this world and how much work it is to have a healthy relationship where two people can talk to each other, and work for solution instead of having to be 'right'.
The more we talked the more I realized that most people want to avoid conflict and when there is a teachable moment, it has become the norm to throw the relationship away!
This is a microwave society - "I want it and I want it NOW!" And we are a country where we throw away things that are broken, or are not perfect. And that seems to extend to people.
I have had so many girlfriends in my lifetime. And it seems that the more honest I am with them, the quicker they move onto other women who will tell them what they want to hear.
I recently confronted, in love, a friend about not being her word, not doing what she said she was going to do. She had nothing to say, and that was the end of the friendship, as we knew it.
I have made several attempts to contact her. Oh yes, she will answer the phone, but there is a coolness about her. She has not made any attempts to phone me. I tried to talk about love and how things will never be perfect between two people (afetr all, we are all human). She agreed and we both said that conflict is an oportunity to use the skills that we know, or are perfecting.
After we agreed to this I never heard from her again.
How can anyone be honest when they are so afraid of losing a frindship? Is it a real friendship if things are said and done, lacking the honest part? And what are we teaching our children?
We need to have mandatory communication classes in junior high. We are taught to add, cook, sew but NOT to get along with others or how to be coachable. Life skills...we never seem to have time for those.
Slow down and learn to listen and solve. This throw-away world is causing too much pain. Life is too short to be giving up good friends. Because only good friends will tell you the truth in love and honesty...and they are keepers!