The Quiet Grief of Adult Friendship: How Regularity Sustains Closeness
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A brief blog post reflecting on the sociological insight that adult friendships suffer because they lack the regular, repeated encounters that naturally occur in youth. The post quotes a poignant observation about how urban adult life dismantles the conditions that sustain closeness, and offers a simple, resonant agreement with that sentiment.
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· 3 pulledSociologists have long argued that human relationships are sustained less by intensity and more by regularity.
Simply encountering the same people repeatedly builds closeness over time.
Youth offers this naturally. Adulthood dismantles it completely. Especially in urban life.
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