Friendship reveals as a complex, living, existential phenomenon, integral, continuously in motion as dynamic processes beyond our control. Friendship offers possibilities without guarantees, unfolding through presence, vulnerability, movement, and freedom. Among young people and peer support workers in Youth FACT, our exploration show how layered meanings of friendship uncover uniquely in each encounter, protective for some, burdensome for others, and at times both within the same relationship and experience.
Arvesen et al. (Thu,) studied this question.