[Gustek]

Is building trust and growing genuine care for someone easy for you?

Trust is always a gamble, at extreme you are putting your life on the line and you never know if the other person will decide to betray you next time regardless of what they did in the past.

Caring about someone is even harder as it is not a conscious choice we are making, it is feeling. You can't just decide from today I care about this person so they are my friend.

My point was, how do you know someone is your friend not how to make one. There is no method to make friends, at best some tips or guidelines.

[mbg721]

No, it certainly isn't easy to do on purpose; that's a big part of why raising kids is hard.