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Buddy System - Understanding Male Friendships (Hardcover)
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Buddy System - Understanding Male Friendships (Hardcover)
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Much has been made of the complex social arrangements that girls
and women navigate, but little scholarly or popular attention has
focused on what friendship means to men. Drawing on in-depth
interviews with nearly 400 men, therapist and researcher Geoffrey
L. Greif takes readers on a guided tour of male friendships,
explaining what makes them work, why they are vital to the health
of individuals and communities, and how to build the kinds of
friendships that can lead to longer and happier lives. Another 120
conversations with women help map the differences in what men and
women seek from friendships and what, if anything, men can learn
from women's relationships. The guiding feature of the book is
Greif's typology of male friendships: he dispels the myth that men
don't have friends, showing that men have must, trust, just,and
rust friends. A must friend is the best friend a man absolutely
must call with earthshaking news. A trust friend is liked and
trusted but not necessarily held as close as a must friend. Just
friends are casual acquaintances, while rust friends have a long
history together and can drift in and out of each other's lives,
essentially picking up where they last left off. Understanding the
role each of these types of friends play across men's lives reveals
fascinating developmental patterns, such as how men cope with
stress and conflict, how they seek and offer help, how notions of
masculinity shape their relationships (platonic and romantic), and
how their friends can keep them active and happy. Through the
lively words of men themselves, and detailed profiles of men from
their twenties to their nineties, readers may be surprised to find
what friendships offer men-as well as their families and
communities-and are sure to learn what makes their own
relationships tick.
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