Platonic partnerships and conventional romantic relationships diverge in another key way: platonic partners tend to be deliberate about keeping their friendship from becoming too encompassing. Art, the former youth pastor from chapter 4, warned viewers of his webinar, “If we’re not careful, we do to friendship what other people do to romance: we idolize it, and we expect it to fill all our needs.” I often interviewed a pair of friends only to learn that there’s a third friend who is just as important or that the pair is embedded in a group of friends. Amelie emphasized her community because
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