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Is Dependency and Not Friendship a Part of Adult Friendship?
You are expecting this person to, you know, show up to hear your crises to kind of meet your needs at all times but you're not really thinking about meeting their needs. You're really thinking about calling them in times of joy only in times of crisis right and it's obviously vulnerability is a part of friendship but it's a chapter and it's not the book. And so when we're just cultivating these relationships where I'm just reaching out to you because I need support and it's a time of crisis right like that's not the full body of friendship. That creates more of a dependence type relationship than the reciprocity of two adults that we know as part of adult friendship.