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It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart
And yet it seems normal now that plans are made far in advance — scheduled around myriad travel and wedding weekends and kids and work commitments — and then canceled right before. Someone doesn’t follow up, or cancels and then never proposes an alternative plan. Similarly, promising new adult friendships never seem to blossom into the kind o
... See moreEven friendship is often cemented with sacrifice. Sharing secrets and intimate details, for example, makes you vulnerable but engenders trust. In my own life, one of the things that helps me feel closer to someone is wasting time together . My childhood and teenage friends are dear to me in part because we've sacrificed countless hours to each othe
... See moreKevin Simler • Religion, Politics, and Self-Suppression
The unhappy truth of the matter is that it is normal for friendships to fade, even under the best of circumstances. The real aberration is keeping them. In 2009, the Dutch sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst published an attention-grabber of a study that basically showed we replace half of our social network over the course of seven years, a reality we ... See more
Jennifer Senior • It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart
l'Amitié Ou Comment Nous Avons Transformé Notre Besoin Le Plus Fondamental en Option Négligeable
Grégory Pouyreadwise.ioHow heartbreaking that my friends have scattered themselves across the country, the world, so we not only do not live together, but do not even share the same weather, the same time.