“Friends that we feel ambivalently about raise our blood pressure more — cause more anxiety and stress — than people we actively dislike.”
This is from an episode (“Frenemies“) of the consistently excellent This American Life where Ira Glass interviewed Julianne Holt-Lunstad about her research on the subject of frenemies.
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