The Friendship Recession

Loneliness has the mortality profile of fifteen cigarettes a day. The good news is that the cure is each other.

By June TanakaJanuary 8, 20258 min read

There is a quiet epidemic in women's lives that doesn't get a hashtag: the slow disappearance of the close, weekly, in-person friendship.

The health data on this is not subtle. Connection is medicine.

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