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Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make and Keep Friends as an Adult
Marisa G. Franco
4.09 AVERAGE
799 reviews for:
Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make and Keep Friends as an Adult
Marisa G. Franco
4.09 AVERAGE
informative
The book has great value and advice, but boy was it full of literary cliches and unnecessarily word structures. I found it hard not to roll my eyes at some sentences. Alas, I do think the scientific approach to building long-lasting friendships outlined in this book is interesting and insightful. While there might be better books on the subject on the market, I still enjoyed reading it and feel like I gained more awareness about how I build friendships in my life.
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A book explaining skills to build relationships and emphasizing the importance of platonic relationships.
This woman sounds like someone who is absolutely exhausting to be friends with, and I do not trust the advice she bestows.
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4/5 - The initial half of the book was a bit redundant for me based on my past reading list. But I really liked the exploration of how culture has now morphed to focus on "finding the one", as a spouse rather than friendship soulmates. How this is more of a cause of the loneliness epidemic. And the end of the book on how affection in friendship is rare, was very insightful.
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Trying to make sure I read more backlist, I placed a zillion library holds and this one kept coming back so OKAY I READ IT LIBBYYY. Placed on my TBR in 2022, consumed on audio.
The first portion covers the value of deep friendships and that they inherently require work just as any other relationship-- this is probably where I felt most engaged. There's then a pretty granular how-to as to verbiage to use when there is a conflict in friendship, which I largely zoned out during since (as far as I know) this does not currently apply to me. The last portion covers how to help cultivate friendship and the double-edged sword of generosity, which was interesting. Overall my big takeaways were: people like you more than you think and you need to put yourself out there.
Was pleasant enough and did inspire me to be uncharacteristically outgoing for 1 week which was tiring but nice.
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I found this book to be incredibly helpful, to the point that I’ve strengthened relationships to multiple friends in just the short period since I first picked it up. There’s a lot of eye-opening insights that really apply to relationships with friends, parents, coworkers, and romantic partners. I’ve been recommending it to everyone!
I will say it used attachment theory more as a framework to use that’s helpful in understanding yourself and others, but the latter chapters go deeper into other topics and aren’t as attachment theory-heavy. But I’ve already read multiple books about attachment theory, so it was nice to have fresh content that didn’t feel like reading the same stuff I already knew.
I will say it used attachment theory more as a framework to use that’s helpful in understanding yourself and others, but the latter chapters go deeper into other topics and aren’t as attachment theory-heavy. But I’ve already read multiple books about attachment theory, so it was nice to have fresh content that didn’t feel like reading the same stuff I already knew.
I didn’t feel like I learned anything new from this book. There were no earthshaking revelations; I didn’t come away with a bunch of notes that I want to refer back to. It was more like a warm, generous reminder of what it means to be one’s best self in a relationship — what that looks like, how it feels, how worth the effort it is.