Commitment to another individual happens implicitly through biology and explicitly through marriage and adoption. But friendship, particularly adult friendship, has no such vow. It’s not that we don’t experience commitment inside our friendships. But we don’t often declare it. Through support and help, through engagement and participation, we extend our time and energy to people we are committed to. But the degree to which we are committed bumps up against that lack of clarity when we want a friendship to hold significance in our lives that looks closer to what our culture expects from
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