Where Have All My Guy Friends Gone?
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Where Have All My Guy Friends Gone?
That might have as much to do with the fact that men’s friendships are dominated, at the best of times, by an out-of-sight-out-of-mind effect.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Our story is not unusual. In your 30s and 40s, plenty of new people enter your life, through work, children’s play dates and, of course, Facebook. But actual close friends — the kind you make in college, the kind you call in a crisis — those are in shorter supply.
Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (Published 2012)
Some social scientists and even philosophers suggest a different vision of friendship, in which friendship is conceived not as a ledger of emotional debits and credits but as an organic creation — an artwork — built by the friends themselves. Conceived in this way, friendships are not ranked or stratified along a bright line from BFF to near strang... See more