Did you know we lose half our friends every seven years?

And the most common reason we do isn’t that we’ve become fundamentally incompatible. It’s because we’re no longer in the same place at the same time. Many of our friendships are effectively “locationships.” We require something called “social embeddedness” (a similar context) for them to continue.

The problem, however, may not be that friendships commonly decrease in closeness over time. It’s that we may assume that just because a friendship is less close than it used to be, it is over. In fact, one

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