He that is thy friend indeed
Friendships are fragile, and most aren’t built to last forever. Circumstances change, bonds diminish. That she and I made it through the better part of a decade was a feat. In 1999 and 2000, the Dutch sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst and his colleagues interviewed 1,007 people between the ages of 18 and 65 about the people they regularly talked to and spent time with. When they followed up seven years later with many of the participants, only about half of the friendships were still going.
The rules governing romantic love are clearer.
enamel on steel, 987 plates { Jennifer Bartlett, Rhapsody, 1975-76 (detail) }
