Friendship is not that which ends after some time and friend is not that with whom we cannot share our heart. Friends are not those who have lunch with us or sit with us in school. Friends are also not those who stay together in 9 hours shift of office. Friends are actually those whom we remember first in times of trouble and difficulty and we believe that by telling them our problems, our problems will really go away.
You felt it. Must be that with increasing age, friends go on decreasing. When we grow up, our list of friends also becomes very small. According to a research, most men lack close and trusted friends. According to a survey by the Survey Center on American Life, it is more difficult for adult men to form and maintain deep, meaningful friendships than it is for women. Less than half of the men expressed their feelings that they are satisfied with their friendship.
Only 1 in 5 men said they get emotional support from their friend. While 4 out of 10 women have confessed this. Professor Yi-Chung Chu, who teaches ‘psychological development of boys’ at Stanford University in California, said, ‘The end of friendship between men starts around the middle of adolescence and they start moving towards adulthood. Men’s friendships with men tend to be less intense than with women.
Boys become emotionally disconnected
A professor of psychology at New York University Researcher and Professor Dr. Niobe Way said that after a while boys become emotionally disconnected. It is the desire of all human beings to have good and close friends. Chu said that we need these relationships to live. As we grow older, their need also increases. He said that research shows that close friends are very important for our mental and physical health. But men have been created by the society as a strict and rigid person. While a woman is created as a soft person. Men are always advised to hide their soft nature like "boys don’t cry", This rigid nature often prevents boys from forming and strengthening friendships and leads to loneliness, violence and anger.
Friendship should be given priority
Psychologist Dr. Frank Scilio, based in Ridgewood, New Jersey, said that just as many men focus on eating right, doing yoga, being successful in their careers and raising children properly, Men should also make it a priority to strengthen their friendships and make new good friends.
