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How to Start Over: The Misgivings of Friend-Making

How to Know What’s Real

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Are You a Therapist or a Good Friend?

There are masculine and feminine ways of behaving in friends. A way of being in a masculine way of knowing is one who's going to like, cut to the chase but also do things like paratise. On feminine ways of knowing, and friendship particularly, involves that self disclosure,. But it comes with a risk, which is what's called co rumination. So both ways of being and friendship have value, but both ways ofbeing and friendship actually are diminishing.

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