HeyJaredFriendship Explained with Anna Goldfarb
The newsletter for people who take their friendships seriously.
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The Real Reason Married Men Lose Their Friends (opens the original)
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The Cut published a piece this week by journalist Monica Corcoran Harel about how husbands have no friends [free link here]. The article describes how women are left to pick up the pieces from their husbands’ collective social withdrawal: These men don’t seem to realize how much women work at keeping friendships alive. I liken it to stoking a fire at a campsite: We gather kindling, gauge the wind, blow on the embers. Some men just watch the flames diminish to a fli
Getting Healthier Made My Friendships Worse. Dr. Marisa Franco Says That's Normal. (opens the original)
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A few years ago, when I first interviewed Dr. Marisa Franco for The New York Times, she was an up-and-coming professor working on a book project. That project became Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make –– and Keep –– Friends, an instant bestseller that cracked open the cultural conversation around adult friendship.Now she’s back with a brilliant new book,
How Capitalism Fucks With Our Friendships (opens the original)
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In his book The End of Solitude, essayist William Deresiewicz points out a fascinating historical paradox about our economy:Capitalism, said Hume and Smith, by making economic relations impersonal, allowed for private relationships based on nothing other than affection and affinity. We don’t know the people who make the things we buy and do not need to know the people who sell them. The ones we do know... have no bearing on our economic lives... We are nothing to one another but what we choose t
The Top 3 Questions People Ask Me As a Friendship Expert (opens the original)
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Before we get to today’s post, I have a quick announcement to make. ✨I’m offering paid subscriptions✨Airhorns. Confetti. T-shirt guns. When I started this newsletter, my goal was simple: bring clear eyes, real reporting, and practical sanity to the chaotic, admin-heavy hellscape of adult relationships.Over the past year, this community has grown into thousands of readers who are tired of superficial advice and ready for honest, effective frameworks developed by yours truly. To keep this work sus
Why I became a friendship expert (opens the original)
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I just reached over 4,000 subscribers, so I figured it’d be a good time to introduce myself and give you some insight into why I’m so obsessed with the topic of friendship. First thing to know: I was a lonely, weird kid. I didn’t have many friends growing up outside Albany, NY. I bounced around between Jewish day schools and public schools (I’d been t… Read more
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