I entirely agree, and it also seems false due to Dunbar’s number-related considerations. While it’s not an actual, physical hard cap on the number of friends you have, simply making a new non-surface-level friendship probably makes it more difficult and cognitively demanding (on the margin) to maintain stable relationships with your other friends (past a certain point, at least).
I entirely agree, and it also seems false due to Dunbar’s number-related considerations. While it’s not an actual, physical hard cap on the number of friends you have, simply making a new non-surface-level friendship probably makes it more difficult and cognitively demanding (on the margin) to maintain stable relationships with your other friends (past a certain point, at least).