Too Close To Call
Too Close To Call Podcast
Dr. Marisa Franco on why friendship isn't valued as equal to partnership
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Dr. Marisa Franco on why friendship isn't valued as equal to partnership

Life's goal is romance, but there's research that friendship is more crucial to happiness over the long run.

“Even the way we talk about it right, you’re just friends, if you’re not in a relationship together,” says Marisa Franco, a Washington-based psychologist who explores the bonds of friendship in her book, “Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make — and Keep — Friends.”

As someone who has placed deep friendships at the highest priority in …

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Too Close To Call
Too Close To Call Podcast
Mostly politics. With a side of personal. Always #profound, perhaps problematic.