Friendship

Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people, generally regarded as a stronger bond than an acquaintance or a purely professional tie such as with a coworker or neighbor. Friendships take many forms, but common features include choosing to spend time together, enjoying that time, and offering one another a supportive role. Friendship is sometimes distinguished from family and from romantic partners, though the line blurs in relationships such as friends with benefits. It has been studied across sociology, social psychology, anthropology, communication and philosophy, with theories such as social exchange theory and attachment styles proposed to explain how it forms and endures. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/