“He found that it took about 50 hours of interaction to move from acquaintance to casual friend, about 90 hours to move from casual friend to friend, and more than 200 hours to qualify as a best friend.”[5]
But it TAKES MORE THAN JUST HOURS. Just as not everyone you date is “marriage material” and out of the small number who are marriage material, you still have to find a good dynamic, which is not true for every candidate. And with roughly half of all marriages ending in divorce, seems true that even if the dynamic seems good, it might not work long-term.
