Would it be better to choose a potential mate through the smallest number of friends?

Question

The level of a persons confidence cannot be based on contacts and conversation alone, the number of friends one has should not make much difference, but somehow it does correlate to the success rate of commitment to spouse and/or real friends and significant other. What can be said of the people who are selective?

Answer 1

Those who have a smaller or limited amount of friends generally commit more time and effort into those relationships as opposed to an individual with many different friends. For example, if a person was to have a group of five friends, they may be more closely bonded to them than if they had more than fifty friends. This is mainly due to the amount of time spent with said friends. However, this is not to say that confidence is not based on the number of friends one has. In some situations, people who seem to have more friends than they can actually handle are usually among those persons to which a higher amount of confidence and self-assurance is attributed. Again, as you stated in your opening line, it is true that someone's confidence level is not related to the number of friends one has. They are confident because they belive in themselves. Friend commitment is only one factor that inluences their success rate in relationships.

In other words: People with less friends are closer to them, but people with more are more confident on the outside. People make their own confidence and don't necessarrily need the acceptance of others.

(P.S. Why are we talking like textbook entries anyway? I answered because I figured that no one else would. I just thought it'd be fun to do it in the same way that you did. Hope this helps with whatever it is that you're doing. Good luck!)