![]() But Sow and Friedman, with the help of many brilliant scholars, explain the investment we must make in our friendships in order for them to go from zero to a Golden Girls–esque bond and even detail how we can fix friendships when they’ve gone off the rails. ![]() Though relationships with blood relatives and romantic relationships are treated with attention and care, friendship is supposed to be malleable, shaping itself around everything else happening in your life. ![]() ![]() But no matter how long you’ve been friends, Sow and Friedman make it clear that sometimes, “deep, lasting friendships, like ours, need protection-and, sometimes, repair.” There’s a cost to being professional friends-two people who others label as “goals” or mimic in their own friendships-and Sow and Friedman’s best-selling book, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close, which was released on July 7, not only takes us on their friendship journey, including the many breakdowns that have occurred, but also helps us better situate friendship as one of the most significant relationships in our lives. Since then, as Friedman has returned to California and Sow has found her professional footing in New York, they’ve forged what they call a big friendship-one that has changed them both, made them interrogate their own behavior, and helped them become better friends not only to each other but to others as well. ![]()
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