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The Friendship Recession: In Reality, (Americans?) Don’t Prioritize Adult Friendships
If you’re unfamiliar with the term “friendship recession,” it’s most associated with a guy named Dan Cox, and subsequently more associated with men than women. There’s been a lot of discussion, from nuanced to hand-wringing to superficial, about the state of friendships in America and beyond over the last five or so years. The normal culprits in this discussion are:
- Screen time
- COVID
- Neighbors don’t interact
- Convenience of modern life, but also…
- … busyness of modern life
- Etc.
That’s definitely a huge part of the picture, but it’s not the entire picture. I’ve written a ton about friendships in the past three years. I won’t link everything for you, because that would be utter overkill, but I’ll give you two that probably matter somewhat to this discussion first:
