We do not choose family, but we do choose friends . At least that's what we believed until now. Over the last decade, the Dutch sociologist Gerald Mollehorst has carried out a study with 1,000 subjects between the ages of 18 and 65 to try to see to what extent we have "control" our network of contacts. And he has come to the conclusion that personal choices when it comes to choosing friends are severely limited by the limited opportunities to meet new people. Something that demonstrates the fact that "we usually establish new relationships in the same environments in which we met our old friends," says Mollehorst.
Furthermore, according to Mollenhorst only 48% of our friends stay with us after 7 years . And only 30% of our close contacts remain in the same position of trust and closeness after that time.
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