I've always found long-term friendship more mysterious than romantic attraction. So many inexplicable aspects to why friends choose and keep one another.
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yes probably true, though it sometimes appears to be a choice people make: to have many many acquaintances vs. a few close friends ... nature/nurture both I suppose
I wonder how many people lack the skills to form & maintain close friendships, & so aren't so much making a choice as accepting a default. In my home country (Australia), there's historically been a lot of emphasis on men (especially) not disclosing any type of vulnerability.
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Needless to say that makes forming close friendships much harder!
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Your angle is super interesting. In my own experience I feel the "home example" is much stronger in love - I definitely didn't see or have strong friendships as a child and had to learn it myself when I realised it was important to me. First principles, much iteration
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