It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart - The Atlantic

The older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 54:51 This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. I t is an insolent cliché , almost, to note that our culture lacks the proper script for ending friendships. We have no rituals to observe, no paperwork to do, no boilerplate dialogue to crib from. Yet when Elisa Albert and Rebecca Wolff were in the final throes of their friendship, they managed, entirely by accident, to leave behind just such a script. The problem was that it read l

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