…the harder things get. There is such a thing as a saturation point in relationships. I guess the adage “absence makes the heart grow fonder” does have some weight after all. Still, it needs a qualifier: Within reasonable limits.
It’s easy to get along with friends. However, I notice that most friends don’t exactly see one another on a daily basis. When that happens, things seem to go downhill rather more often. Take the case of married couples living together as opposed to a dating couple. Or how friends getting together to start a company can wind up becoming bitter enemies.
I have seen this happening even in my own friendships, where some start off really well but taper with prolonged contact. One of my schoolmates was so eager to know everything about me in the beginning, then we slowly ran out of stuff to talk about.
I guess it really is true that people need time to grow, and to be apart. Things change, and keeping one another abreast of developments is probably a good way to “catch up”. Yet when people are apart for too long, they grow distant and “you have changed” becomes a common enough parting phrase…
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