Transactional Love Reconsidered With Jaime

My father once said to me, "The best friends you'll ever have are the guys you do business with." After a glance my way he underlined his thinking, "Eventually the rest of them will screw you."



Like many college-aged men I was passionate about friends, particularly male buddies, and my father's inexplicable blasphemy, linking money with friendship, attacked the core of my youthful aesthetics. I tried to argue with him, but that never worked with Abe Waitzkin, who showered scorn at me with his...