Sow: The thing with friendship is that you can have this really deeply meaningful relationship with someone, but nothing is tethering you to each other. How their professional relationship helped save their personal one You know? We do this in our friendships all the time. Or you don’t know how to sacrifice yourself to be in a relationship. Why friendship can be just as important as romantic relationshipsĪnn Friedman: I think that is another stereotype, which is if you are not in a long term romantic relationship, it somehow means you don’t know how to invest in someone for the long term. It’s like there are all these other things that are markers of how you are an adult in the world, but friendship is just like cake at the end of the day.Īnd I think that really is because we have this really stubborn refusal to accept that for some people - and for a lot of people - friendship is at the center of what makes them tick as a human being, and that is a relationship that is just as valid as other societal bonds that we have decided are very important. Or we celebrate it as very cute and fun - like it’s always additive to your life. On the lack of studies about friendship, especially compared to romantic or familial relationshipsĪminatou Sow: As a society we do not take friendship very seriously.
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