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Americans have slowly adapted to a “fun” approach to friendship that maximizes our ability to be noncommittal and minimizes any sense of reciprocal obligation to our friends.

Overburdening our spouses and partners has resulted from treating our friends as ‘entertainment.’

It takes a lot of work to fight against all of this.