IT depends on how they add to your life. Reasons generally want more than they give. Seasons usually teach you lessons(make sure you learn them the first time. Trust!). Lifetimes even if you let them go they come back to you, especially when you need them... Keep your eyes open and your heart pure and you will know.

When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on. Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season. LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

I wish I knew the answer. And I wish some people who weren't meant to be there for a lifetime had been.

If you choose "reason" you'll always be right. The other two are time-spans and are unknown....esp. lifetime. *You can always find a reason

You probably won't know at first. These things just develop and you have to allow them to.

Time will tell. You'll realise after they are gone. Sad but true!

when you always have that smile in meeting that person then its for lifetime........ when you think it will be nice to meet him or her then its for a season....... when you have to meet that person for one purpose that makes you to meet him again and again then its for a reason...

ITS VERY CLICHE BUT, YOU REALLY WILL "JUST KNOW"...AND INSTANTLY...I DID

Many for a reason, some for a season, special people stay for a lifetime.

Time tells all....

some come into your life with a purpose, others only stay 4 months (a season), others are with you forever. you dirrerentiate by the amount of time spent in your life or by the impact they have on your life.

maybe god will tell you