Friend fail: When your partner dislikes your pals

Published July 13, 2015 This content is archived.

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An article in The Wall Street Journal about romantic relationships and the difficulties that friends can cause, particularly when one partner dislikes the other partner’s friends, reports two UB studies published together in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science in 2014 showed that when people reported they cared very much about their partner but were unsure how much their partner cared about them, they were more jealous of their partner’s friends.

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/friend-fail-when-your-partner-dislikes-your-pals-1436802058

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