Arthur C. Brooks

DDDD in there.

And so when I left, I actually reestablished relationships that I really cared about an awful lot.

I made a bunch of new friends I didn't have before and old friends I really deepened.

People who know me extremely well.

For men, this is super important too, because men, like 60% of men my age, their best friend is their wife.

Yeah.

And only 30% of their wives say their best friend is their husband.

I know.

I told my wife, she's like, huh.

You don't say.

So yeah.

And that's sometimes, you know, this is one of the reasons that men tend to die so quickly after their wives die, because they've lost their only friend.

They're alone.

They're profoundly alone in the universe.

And there's no more reason to live if you're truly alone.

You're not supposed to be alone.

People aren't supposed to be alone.

He's built his relationships.

He actually did the work.

He actually... And many guys don't know that, especially real hard-charging strivers, the lawyer guys who they're forced to retire, for example.