The 2.3 Years Problem

Losing friends in adulthood is more common than we admit.

Here’s a post from Eric Barker about emotionally-aware friendships, which largely draws from this book from a professor at Oxford. There are any number of good pull quotes and sequences in the book/blog post, and let me hit you with a few of them:

Our data suggest that, on average, you could expect to have one terminal (i.e. unreconciled) relationship br…