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Category Archives: Friends
Making Friends, Losing Friends, And Balance Theory
I might not have the normal person’s access to feelings. I fear getting flooded by empathy, and so I usually stay behind a hard cynical exterior, and I keep most people at arm’s length. This will sound weird, but I … Continue reading
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Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close (2020)
Here are some highlights from this book: * In the late 18th and 19th centuries, when it became common to marry for love, middle-class people began worrying that the couple would have no reason to stay married if their affections … Continue reading
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Friendship: A History (2014)
Here are some highlights from this book: * The second half of the twentieth century saw the triumph of the particular form of intimate and reciprocal friendship traced in the preceding chapter. In Western societies, and especially in the individualized … Continue reading
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The Seven Pillars Of Friendship (3-30-22)
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Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
From this 2021 book by Robin Dunbar: * we tend to underestimate the significance of psychological wellbeing as the bedrock on which our success in life is founded. If our sense of wellbeing is significantly diminished for any length of … Continue reading
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Find Friends & Community After Age 30 By Volunteering
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Can Writers Have Friends?
From a book review (the book itself): CAN WRITERS HAVE FRIENDS?” Jane Smiley asks in this anthology’s most provocative piece. Twenty women writers, some famous, many not, give their own answers. For Japanese American Sylvia Watanabe, the friend is her … Continue reading
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