Knowing your attachment style can help to nurture and strengthen your friendships

Friendships need to be nurtured. Knowing your attachment style could help your relationships and deal with rough patches, says a US psychologist

Though the characters in the hit sitcom ‘Friends’ had romantic relationships, their deep friendships endured. Picture: Warner Bros Television

Friends — where would we be without them? Lonely, that’s where. Even having just one or two is crucial for our wellbeing, despite our ingrained cultural belief that romantic love is the only kind that matters. It’s not.

Platonic love — the love of our friends — is, according to Marsilio Ficino, the 15th-century Italian scholar who coined the term, the highest form of love.