Where Have All My Guy Friends Gone?
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Where Have All My Guy Friends Gone?
Importantly, women were not generally motivated by sexual attraction in forming cross-sex friendships, but men were. It’s almost as though sex is a consequence of friendship for women, but a cause of friendship for men.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
The data showed that, in early adolescence, a woman’s best friend (the person she calls most often) is likely to be another female; but after about age eighteen, it switches to become increasingly male, reaching a peak in the early twenties that remains relatively stable until age forty, after which it falls rapidly to become female again at around
... See moreRobin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
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
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
That summer let me reveal something to myself, in full, that I had always known but been afraid of – the line between friend and lover is so thin so as to be barely there. I have always been someone who is made anxious and upset by arbitrary boundaries. I like to know why limits are drawn where they are; I need a reason. I see nothing wrong with ke
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