Forum from the Archives: Jennifer Senior on the Fragility of Friendship

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🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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“Modern life conspires against friendship,” says Atlantic staff writer Jennifer Senior, "even as it requires the bonds of friendship all the more." That’s one of the paradoxes at the center of Senior’s new piece “It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart” — a meditation on why friendships fade and collapse and why in midlife those losses sting particularly hard. We’ll talk to Senior about how at 52 she’s navigating what she calls a “Great Pandemic Friendship Reckoning” and what it means to overcome the heartbreak of a lost friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.7	And on this Memorial Day, forum brings you an episode
0:55.2	from our archives on friendship. Modern life conspires against friendship, says Atlantic
1:00.0	staff writer Jennifer Sr., even as it requires the bonds of friendship all the more. That's
1:05.0	one of the paradoxes at the center of Seniors' piece, It's Your Friends Who Break Your Heart,
1:09.6	a meditation on why friendships
1:11.2	fade or collapse, and why in midlife those losses sting even more. We'll talk to Senior
1:16.3	about what she calls a great pandemic friendship reckoning and how to overcome the
1:20.4	heartbreak of a lost friend. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
1:37.8	When Atlantic staff writer Jennifer Sr. realized how much she needed her friends in midlife, she began to look back at the friendships she'd had and lost.
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