9 Ways To Know If You Have Enemies Disguised As Friends
People Who try to Force an Inauthentic Connection with You
Richard Connor spent six years studying dolphin social interactions and then compared them to human interactions. With humans he found that:
One prevailing theory in social psychology suggests that people choose their friends on the basis of homophily, which is the notion that people associate with others who are similar to them. This is not a new idea: Aristotle wrote that people “love those who are like themselves,” and Plato noted that “similarity begets friendship.” C.S. Lewis mused, “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.’”
So if you see that someone keeps on trying to find just anything to latch on to make a connection with you, that person’s motives for trying so hard to be your friend should be examined.
