The Friendship Silo: Why Women Are Keeping Their Closest Friends Apart
A growing number of women maintain deep friendships that never intersect with the rest of their social world. Is it exhaustion, or a deliberate boundary?
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A growing number of women maintain deep friendships that never intersect with the rest of their social world. Is it exhaustion, or a deliberate boundary?
Nobody warns you that friendship in your thirties becomes a thing you have to schedule. Here is how to stop letting the good ones drift.
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