Dr. Marisa G. Franco
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I'd love to hear from you your path to friendship science and what led you to get into this work.
Yeah.
So in my young 20s, I had friends, but I didn't necessarily value them as much as I do now.
Then I went through this breakup.
So I approached my friend Heather and I was like, oh, do you want to start this wellness group?
We can meet up and meditate and cook and do yoga with a group of friends.
And looking back, I took the breakup so bad because I thought romantic love was the only love that made me worthy, is the only love that could truly complete me.
But meeting up with these friends every week showed me just how powerful a force platonic love was and made me really rethink some of those assumptions and question why didn't this form of love matter or count?
And I felt like my reactions, my thoughts, my interpretations were really reflecting a larger culture and zeitgeist wherein we create this hierarchy of love.
And I wanted to be part of leveling that hierarchy.
So that's why I wrote Platonic on the science of making and keeping friends.
Do you feel like the research you've done has helped yourself to become a better friend and have a clearer understanding about your relationships as well?
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, before I wrote Platonic, it was all a mystery to me.
I felt like there was some magic that happened.
People just sort of chose you.
It didn't feel like something you can be intentional about doing.
Either you had friends or you don't.
But since writing Platonic, I'm like, okay, you have power over whether you have friends or not.
You can influence this outcome.
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