Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「Lew Wilcox and Bobby Rohrbach Jr. met in the summer of 1962, riding their bikes together in a small southern Ohio town.⁠ ⁠ These days, every Saturday, one picks the other up and they go out for breakfast, run errands and talk about families, home repairs and how the world is changing. If one can’t remember a place or name, the other can fill in because they so often lived the same story. They didn’t outgrow the other or leave the other behind and still live within about 5 miles of their childhood homes.⁠ ⁠ “I have a lot of friends but there’s something special about our friendship,” says Lew, 75, of his friend, Bobby, 73.⁠ ⁠ Good friends are good for us. They help us get through bad times, listen when we need them and offer advice. A lack of someone you can confide in can lead to loneliness and isolation, which have been labeled a public health threat, on par with smoking and obesity.⁠ ⁠ Yet as important as they are, people have fewer close friendships than they once did.⁠ ⁠ Four in 10 Americans say they don’t have a best friend at all, up from 25% in 1990. The best-friend gap is more pronounced for men, who typically have fewer close friends than women do. The percentage of men without any close friends jumped fivefold to 15% in 2021 from 3% in 1990, according to the May 2021 American Perspectives Survey.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in our bio.⁠ ⁠ 📷: @maddiemcgarvey for @wsjphotos」9月11日 9時00分