Examples Of Aristotle's Utility Friendships

Aristotle states that utility friendships are the ones with the most complaints (1162b5). To me, this is one of the most important topics Aristotle has stated so far. I had a friendship in high school which I can now define as a utility friendship. We both used each other just for the fact that we could benefit off of one another. She gave me rides places and I gave her someone who she could vent to about all of her problems in life. When one of us could not help the other, one would complain because we did not get what we wanted. We were only friends because of what one offered the other. When we would try and have a pleasure friendship, it would never work. I always felt bad that I was only friends with her because she would give me rides and she was only friends with me so she
When we would try and be better friends, it would always end up in arguments and complaints about one another. When I learned what Aristotle said about utility friendships being the ones with the most complaints, I did not feel bad that we could not become better friends. When I stopped needing rides and when her life got better, our friendship ended because we no longer found each other useful. Aristotle made it known that these type of friendships were common and it made me feel less guilty about the utility friendship that I used to have because I knew other people had this as well. Aristotle describes a virtue friendship as one that will be permeant as long as the people in the relationship are both moral (1157a18-20). He says that the only people that can experience the virtue friendship are people who are morally good (1157a18-20). I can