Status Updates From Freunde Lieben

my least favourite part was the sudden consent lecture, along with the confessed refusal of the author at the end of the book that he didn't want to lay out his personal/private relationships. but that was exactly what this book was missing, to take its eyes off the clouds of theory and make its case for fwbs by illuminating the workings of these friendships on an individual level. i'm rather disappointed ;-;

far more theoretical than i assumed, which was its biggest weakness at that too, together with focusing so much on (presumed cishet) f/m relationships (author is a gay cis man). i feel like it took away little to nothing; felt like every time it was about to become more concrete it went 'everyone's different' :/

das wort männlich normative alexithymie (unfähigkeit von männern emotionen zu versprachlichen) wird fix in meinen aktiven wortschatz aufgenommen🙏