friend. joining me now to discuss the state of american friendship, dr. sue varma assistant professor of psychiatry, marisa lee, author of the forthcoming book, and author of the forthcoming book where speaking the life lessons of kamala harris. it is great to see you all. doctor, i ll start with you. that survey shows the number were americans with best friends has been declining for decades. what do you think is behind that trend? i think a variety of reasons. one of the reasons might be that the fact that our mobility has increased. people are working far away from home. we saw that during the pandemic and the trend exploded even further and people want freedom
state of american friendship, dr. sue varma assistant professor of psychiatry, marisa lee, author of the forthcoming book, and author of the forthcoming book where speaking the life lessons of kamala harris. it is great to see you all. doctor, i ll start with you. that survey shows the number were americans with best friends has been declining for decades. what do you think is behind that trend? i think a variety of reasons. one of the reasons might be that the fact that our mobility has increased. people are working far away from home. we saw that during the pandemic and the trend exploded even further and people want freedom and prioritizing work of our social skills and people are leaving their jobs. in fact, the largest group of people who would stay at a job one or two years are people under the age of 40. so we re seeing larger groups of