Friendships Are Just as Important as Romantic Relationships

Friendships are one of the most important ways to enrich your life. that I think is often underappreciated and not really too often spoken about. We have been conditioned to place more emphasis on finding and keeping intimate partners than friendships. There's a greater expectation of suffering in grief when romantic relationships end whereas that kind of reaction over friendships isn't as normalized or expected. It can be just as uncomfortable and sad as romantic endings you know like with someone you will never romantic or sexual with but no one is entirely replaceable.