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How to Make Your Friendships Deeper - The Atlantic

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If your social life is leaving you unfulfilled, you might have too many deal friends, and not enough real friends.

T hink for a minute about your friendships. Some friends you would text with any silly thought; others you only call a couple of times a year. Some are people you look up to; others you like, but do not especially admire. You fit into these categories for others as well—maybe you are helpful to one person, and a confidant to another. We get different things out of different relationships, which is all well and good. There is one type of friend almost everyone has: the buddy who can help you get ahead in life, the friend from whom you need or want something. You don’t necessarily use this perso

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