E. Fair weather friends, Deep Engagements, and the Dilemmas of Modern Living. A true friend is one who sticks around during hard times. True friends are usually friends who one has a deep engagement with. Modern times take many of the needs of friend s away, i.e. modern medicine, and cops, etc. F. Men and women benefit differently from friendships 1.
Women perceive protection as a benefit of opposite-sex friendships.
That is a problem of altruism. We benefit from helping friends because we receive something from the friends in return. A classic example of how friends helped each other is the hunter-gatherer theory. When men killed an animal that had too much food for his family, and another man did not hunt as well that time, they would share it and later reciprocate the favor. If efforts were not reciprocated, the hunter would no longer share with him.