Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

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g. "double tap to like" and "ghosting" interspersed with interviews with friends about friendship e. Elizabeth Day has always been candid when comes to talking about her own fertility and desire to have children. There’ll be scenarios in this book that you’ll recognise, many of us probably did learn something about relationships during the repeated lockdowns.

Este livro aborda vários tipos de amizade sempre baseados na experiência pessoal da autora, o que lhe dá um cunho muito próprio, mas também com muita informação estatística e científica.

Academic and scientific lines of reasoning are used in this book to provide a bit of starch to an otherwise completely subjective book. This male friend of hers who is the chosen expert on male friendship despite not having any says he's the type of guy who hates a stag do. Over the course of the book, she examines topics such as the effect that the pandemic had on our friendships, why we make friends, friendships between people of very different ages, ghosting, platonic friendships between people of different genders, ‘friendship CVs’, the importance of clarity, frenemies, fertility (this chapter is a truly important piece of work in itself), the effect of big life changes and serious illness, friendship and social media, defining ‘best’ friendships and, perhaps the most unspoken subject, the grief at losing a friend. Sinto que estamos finalmente a perceber que nem todo o amor é romântico e que as relações platónicas tem um peso igual ou maior na nossa vida. From ghosting and frenemies to social media and seismic life events, Elizabeth leaves no stone unturned.

That I prefer cinema dates to ones in bars and that I don’t do hugs (it’s nothing personal, I just don’t).The discussions talk about the complications involved in being the only black friend to a white person etc and sadly its place in the book feels very much like the tokenism that Day and Sharmaine are trying to fight. The essential difference between male and female same-sex friendships, is that female friendships are "face to face" whereas male friendships are "side by side". This book absolutely hit the spot for me, and it’s been a long time since a book has got me this good.

She suggests, not quite jokingly, that it might be a good idea to send potential friends the equivalent of a pre-nup before agreeing to a first coffee date. What I loved about this as a recovering Friendaholic myself is Elizabeth’s vulnerability and openness as she looks at why some of her deepest friendships didn’t work out, as well as why he best friendship with Emma has (and thank goodness- she seems amazing). My preference is for once-a-month meet-ups with an option to consider a mini-break in Prague if things go well. Which gets at the other big limitation of the book for me, the outright dismissal of male-to-male friendships. Then, when a global pandemic hit in 2020, she was one of thousands of people forced to reassess what friendship really meant to them - with the crisis came a dawning realisation: her truest friends were not the ones she had been spending most time with.

Would it be a bit depressing telling me I was a rubbish friend, or would it be an fascinating insight about how friendships work for other people? Contudo, não vou negar que esperava que o livro abordasse ainda mais vertentes da amizade, algo que só não é possível porque lá está, é baseado na experiência pessoal da autora.