Friendship as backup during hormone therapy choices
Friendship is often treated as optional precisely when careers, caregiving, divorce, relocation, and changing family roles make it essential. Leaver combines research, interviews, cultural observation, and personal stories to examine loneliness, online connection, friendship endings, and the health value of close bonds. Women considering hormone therapy benefit from friendships where questions, experiences, and fears can be discussed without turning personal stories into medical instructions. For women carrying several roles at once, the book makes friendship a health practice: invest time, risk honest conversation, repair neglect, and stop assuming meaningful connection should maintain itself automatically.
About Kate Leaver
Kate Leaver spent a year researching friendship and inviting strangers to describe loneliness, including people who appeared sociable and well connected. The project strengthened her conviction that intimacy depends on honest self-disclosure and repeated effort, not simply social contact.
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