How do you check relationship with other user before sending a friend request?

[patterueldev]

I can't find a method that will check if there's "an existing record" on the friend request table (I'd have to use Eloquent manually), but there could be a method created to check this right? I mean,

What if the other user is already:
Added? Pending Request? Blocked?

Is there a single method to check this?

[ronssij]

$user->isFriendWith($friend);
$user->hasFriendRequestFrom($sender);
$user->hasSentFriendRequestTo($recipient);
$user->hasBlocked($friend);

What about this? It's on their docs