Pride is a weird weird thing...they can really screw things up and make everything weird and uncomforable and yet at the same time...u got to respect it and follow it cuz its ur nature, ur core and what makes u someone who can stand up be proud of ur strength...

With the dose of pride.....there's pretend coldness, defense mechanisms, forced rationale against emotional weaknesses, decisive cutoffs, sometimes even revenge and its sad cuz if both parties are not able to let go some of that pettyness.....then they're pretty much screwed really in any sort of relationship in which that sensitive pandora's box has already been violated....

Say a friendship may be renewed but open communication would never be the same again...on account of pride one party would never wanna humble themselves to admit their mistakes and on that note the other probably will not forgive entirely unless one does.  So where does that leave you?  Perhaps attemps at friendship renewal, forced politeness, awkward and sensitively guarded conversations in which every detailed misdemeanor is interpretted outta proportions and probably eventually fizzling off...and u're left wondering....hey where did that once-a-upon-a-time genuine and open connection went?

ahhh human nature sucks that's all i can say...and i'm a mean mean culprit as well...