A few years ago, my colleague Olga Khazan shared a radical proposition: What if we stopped firing our friends' The friendship breakup has become a feature of modern life: Online, advice abounds on 'how to aggressively confront, or even abandon, friends who disappoint us,' Olga noted. But what if another solution exists' Instead of firing your friends, psychologists told her, it helps to expand your circle, allowing more people to provide you with different types of support or camaraderie: 'Rather than resting on one pillar, healthy friendship is better imagined as crowd-surfing'many hands holding you up,' Olga writes. The magic of friendship is in its murkiness: We meet a new friend, make room for them in our lives, and sometimes come to rely on them more than we ever expected. But unlike in other relationships, communicating our needs isn't the norm in friendships'which gives our friends more opportunities to disappoint us. Today's newsletter explores what to do when your friends...
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