Friendship — real friendship, the kind Aristotle called the highest form of love between persons — is increasingly described as a crisis: adults report fewer close friends, less time devoted to it, less expectation that it should be a primary source of nourishment. But the hunger for it doesn't disappear; it goes underground. This domain examines what friendship actually is, what it asks, and how to tend to it as seriously as one tends to romantic love.
Each step builds on the last.