Strong feelings

✍ Scribed by Howard Kamler

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 601 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5363
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00151411

✦ Synopsis

Only formerly good friends could be such strong enemies." "Hell hath no fury like a women scorned." "Hatred and friendship are two sides of the same coin."

We are all uncomfortably familiar with the truth of these sentiments. Whether a person is a divorcing spouse or a fickle child playing musical chairs with a procession of "best" friends, his ending an old friendship can be a painful, hurtful, and sometimes hateful thing. Why is this so? What exactly are these deeply emotional relations of friendship and hatefulness? We will consider the two in turn in this paper.