Want to Improve Your Friendships?…Move Away from Your Friends

When you're far away from your friends and get together on a trip, it's more intense.

If you want to get closer to your friends…move away from them! A psychologist at Michigan State University says the key to great friendships is to get away from your friends. Here’s why. If you live close to someone and it’s really easy to get together, you don’t have to invest that much energy in the friendship. It’s easy to cancel or flake and you might even run out of stuff to talk about. But, when you’re far away from your friends and get together on a trip, it’s more intense. You talk about the things that don’t come up in text messages or social media and that makes you feel closer to them.