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The Relationship Between the Crisis of Connection and the Hordes of People Who Don't Have Closer Friends
I think gaining confidence for anybody helps you connect to people with more confidence. You learn the skills as a child with your family and with your friends, the skills of relationships. So I would say what's happening now in the breakdown of relationships that you see in all sorts of ways is that men are feeling very, you know, positive that there's so much attention to their emotional lives right now. But they're also turning to their partner now as their therapist rather than then turning to a friend because they don't have any friends. That puts an enormous weight on a relationship when the wife is playing both the,. you know, the role of spouse or girlfriend, and then also therapist and then