The Dangers of Exclusive Friendships

Tackles the oldest advice about friendship, that the finest ones are where both people can do without each other, and traces how an exclusive pair bond changes shape when one person becomes necessary to the other. Walks the full slide: pair to clique, the private view becoming the shared view, and where that ends in feuds.

Gives the mechanics of recognizing the slide early, the only reliable defense, and the structural risk of a same-type, all-in bond with no outside air. Lays out the healthier shape, wide, warm, and a little far, a web instead of a load-bearing wall, plus an exercise on your three closest friendships.